Greetings on this wonderful day in Hoosier Valley Land. Temp made it up to
64 degrees, plenty of sunshine, fresh air, windy, lots of leaves everywhere.
A good day to get something done.
Started out at Fingerhut with the amateur radio "Hams" for a good bull session
of radio talk. Excellent breakfast as normal. Lots of guys I haven't seen for some
time. Good to catch up on the news around the local area.
Got down at the museum about 8am, Board meeting being held in the kitchen
car. Membership meeting next Saturday, most likely 1pm, as now that tourist
trains are over. If you desire to run for an office, sign up sheet in Kitchen Car
bulletin board, President, Treasurer, and 2 directors. Not much new from the
meeting. Short meeting, done by 9am. Off to work.
Fred and Doug ran the guest engineer program today, six ran the diesel today.
I did flagging at the crossings up to 500 North. Nice to get out an pace the train.
Steve Newland worked on Grasselli tower today, most likely did some wood
project around the windows. Did not stay all that long.
Payloader got a new starter this past week, died last week and now starts
fine. BTW, backhoe tractor is now back in service, found out the repairs to the
transmission were done free of charge by the repair company.
Work commenced on spiking down the rail where the ND&W engine will be
unloaded hopefully the last week of November. After the 2 sections were done,
they were unbolted and lifted by the payloader to one side to permit the semi
truck to drive into the ROW and drop the trailer. The sections will be lifted back
in place, reconnected, an then the unloading rail will be set up. The PRR flatcar
is in position to be pushed on to the trailer, couple up to the diesel and pull it off.
During the week, all equipment had been moved down to the east end of the yard,
cept for the Purdue crane and 3 trucks that are at the west end of the siding.
Plenty of room to get the diesel in to push the flat car up the ramp. Maybe more
info will be given out at the membership meeting next week.
Joe was busy today working on the IC caboose up on the north side of the cupola.
It has been discovered a large hole is where all the water is leaking in. Much
grinding to get down to bare metal. I'm not sure how it will be fixed. Not sure about
the south side of the cupola yet. So more metal work needs to be done before
priming of the outside.
Concrete is ready to be poured between the rails in the west shop. During the
week Richard and Cory welded angle iron to the inside of the rail for the flanges
and installed a water drainage system to the west end and to the outside. Bob J
put wood blocks between the wood ties to keep concrete from flowing out from
under the rail. No idea when concrete will be poured. But will before the shop
is filled up with cars for winter restoration.
Some projects for the winter are, replacing bearings on the LIRR coach, tool car
floor being fixed, IC caboose being painted and the ND&W diesel put in over
the pit for inspection. A curtain between the west and middle shop is going to
be installed so it is easy to open an close. Stencils for the EJ&E caboose have
been received and Bjarne will paint them on.
Have a good week, drive safe, darkness now comes an hour earlier, so plan
ahead.
Regards
Tom Travis
64 degrees, plenty of sunshine, fresh air, windy, lots of leaves everywhere.
A good day to get something done.
Started out at Fingerhut with the amateur radio "Hams" for a good bull session
of radio talk. Excellent breakfast as normal. Lots of guys I haven't seen for some
time. Good to catch up on the news around the local area.
Got down at the museum about 8am, Board meeting being held in the kitchen
car. Membership meeting next Saturday, most likely 1pm, as now that tourist
trains are over. If you desire to run for an office, sign up sheet in Kitchen Car
bulletin board, President, Treasurer, and 2 directors. Not much new from the
meeting. Short meeting, done by 9am. Off to work.
Fred and Doug ran the guest engineer program today, six ran the diesel today.
I did flagging at the crossings up to 500 North. Nice to get out an pace the train.
Steve Newland worked on Grasselli tower today, most likely did some wood
project around the windows. Did not stay all that long.
Payloader got a new starter this past week, died last week and now starts
fine. BTW, backhoe tractor is now back in service, found out the repairs to the
transmission were done free of charge by the repair company.
Work commenced on spiking down the rail where the ND&W engine will be
unloaded hopefully the last week of November. After the 2 sections were done,
they were unbolted and lifted by the payloader to one side to permit the semi
truck to drive into the ROW and drop the trailer. The sections will be lifted back
in place, reconnected, an then the unloading rail will be set up. The PRR flatcar
is in position to be pushed on to the trailer, couple up to the diesel and pull it off.
During the week, all equipment had been moved down to the east end of the yard,
cept for the Purdue crane and 3 trucks that are at the west end of the siding.
Plenty of room to get the diesel in to push the flat car up the ramp. Maybe more
info will be given out at the membership meeting next week.
Joe was busy today working on the IC caboose up on the north side of the cupola.
It has been discovered a large hole is where all the water is leaking in. Much
grinding to get down to bare metal. I'm not sure how it will be fixed. Not sure about
the south side of the cupola yet. So more metal work needs to be done before
priming of the outside.
Concrete is ready to be poured between the rails in the west shop. During the
week Richard and Cory welded angle iron to the inside of the rail for the flanges
and installed a water drainage system to the west end and to the outside. Bob J
put wood blocks between the wood ties to keep concrete from flowing out from
under the rail. No idea when concrete will be poured. But will before the shop
is filled up with cars for winter restoration.
Some projects for the winter are, replacing bearings on the LIRR coach, tool car
floor being fixed, IC caboose being painted and the ND&W diesel put in over
the pit for inspection. A curtain between the west and middle shop is going to
be installed so it is easy to open an close. Stencils for the EJ&E caboose have
been received and Bjarne will paint them on.
Have a good week, drive safe, darkness now comes an hour earlier, so plan
ahead.
Regards
Tom Travis
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