Greetings to All,
Saturday 24th is the start of a wonderful weekend of many things, cookouts,
family get togethers, travel, but most of all it is Memorial Day Weekend. Parades
honoring our military fallen servicemen who have died. Graveyards are a sea
of red, white and blue US flags waving in the breeze. I stopped last night on the way
home from HVRM to visit the Union Mills cemetary where an old friend is now
buried and a WWII veterean, Alvin J Bishop, a Baltimore & Ohio railroader that
worked as an operator in the Wellsboro depot for years, using the handkey to
pass reports to other operators up an down the lines of the B&O and GTW.
Bish was a telegrapher operator in WWII for communications. I just can't believe he
has been gone since 1997, time passes so quickly now days. Take time to
enjoy life while we have it. God Bless all our servicemen serving the United States.
Many thanks to Les Beckman for the picture of the glads in the flower bed across
from the depot and newly repainted IC caboose an Troop sleeper. Thanks to who
ever cleaned up the flower bed of weeds, looks nice.
Driving in on IN 10 yesterday, the tie crew had started work at the IN 10 RR crossing.
So I stopped an joined in for a full day of doing mostly everything physically demanding
work, plain old grunt work. Cory had just turned the air compressor around facing
west an planned on started putting spike in ties. The compressor refused to turn
over. Tinkering with everything electrical did no good. So manual spiking began.
A long day. All the remaining ties were inserted into the roadbed, spiked, and later
in the afternoon Cory brought down the tie tamper machine and tamped an leveled
the last of new ties. The air compressor's new starter went bad and taken back
to Napa to get another starter ordered, delievery around Wednesday. Crew was
Cory, John, Mark, Steve Hendrics and myself. Very sore this morning, but feel better
now.
Bob Albert and Steve Newland cut up scrap metal into smaller sizes. Last week
scrapping out two old newspaper machines, Steve found a total of almost 51 dollars
in change in the money box. Guess it was overlooked when taken out of service.
HVRM's gain.
Les cleaned up the plates for the TTX car and primed them to keep them from rusting.
EJ&E 184 brakes were dragging on the first run of the day, so it was set out
on the caboose tracks for evaluation. Cory let the brake link one spot and they
did not drag. The air cylinder extended an retracted correctly. Nothing was noted
really wrong. Will be put back into train service next week.
Loretta said that the North Judson-San Pierre 3rd grade school kids had at
train ride on Friday and had a wonderful time. Looks like a yearly thing now.
Wooden Nickel pizza's were the main staple for lunch. Loretta provided just
picked lettuce from her garden that came up from last year. Was very popular
dish with everyone.
Bruce Emmons worked the gift shop yesterday. Looks goods and is progressing
nicely after his stomach surgery. Showed some pictures of his new house
in the Phillipines, windows were being installed.
Joe Baker was around doing odd jobs around the museum.
Earlier in the week at La Crosse a semi caught the top of the rail at the crossing
north of La Crosse on US 421, destroying a big section of rail. Les reported
on his way home Saturday it looked like temporary repairs have been made.
Hopefully the crossing will be replaced soon, as it is extremely rough to cross.
Any speed results in lots of bumps.
Everyone have a nice weekend, drive safely out there this weekend.
Hope to see you next work session at HVRM.
Tom Travis
Saturday 24th is the start of a wonderful weekend of many things, cookouts,
family get togethers, travel, but most of all it is Memorial Day Weekend. Parades
honoring our military fallen servicemen who have died. Graveyards are a sea
of red, white and blue US flags waving in the breeze. I stopped last night on the way
home from HVRM to visit the Union Mills cemetary where an old friend is now
buried and a WWII veterean, Alvin J Bishop, a Baltimore & Ohio railroader that
worked as an operator in the Wellsboro depot for years, using the handkey to
pass reports to other operators up an down the lines of the B&O and GTW.
Bish was a telegrapher operator in WWII for communications. I just can't believe he
has been gone since 1997, time passes so quickly now days. Take time to
enjoy life while we have it. God Bless all our servicemen serving the United States.
Many thanks to Les Beckman for the picture of the glads in the flower bed across
from the depot and newly repainted IC caboose an Troop sleeper. Thanks to who
ever cleaned up the flower bed of weeds, looks nice.
Driving in on IN 10 yesterday, the tie crew had started work at the IN 10 RR crossing.
So I stopped an joined in for a full day of doing mostly everything physically demanding
work, plain old grunt work. Cory had just turned the air compressor around facing
west an planned on started putting spike in ties. The compressor refused to turn
over. Tinkering with everything electrical did no good. So manual spiking began.
A long day. All the remaining ties were inserted into the roadbed, spiked, and later
in the afternoon Cory brought down the tie tamper machine and tamped an leveled
the last of new ties. The air compressor's new starter went bad and taken back
to Napa to get another starter ordered, delievery around Wednesday. Crew was
Cory, John, Mark, Steve Hendrics and myself. Very sore this morning, but feel better
now.
Bob Albert and Steve Newland cut up scrap metal into smaller sizes. Last week
scrapping out two old newspaper machines, Steve found a total of almost 51 dollars
in change in the money box. Guess it was overlooked when taken out of service.
HVRM's gain.
Les cleaned up the plates for the TTX car and primed them to keep them from rusting.
EJ&E 184 brakes were dragging on the first run of the day, so it was set out
on the caboose tracks for evaluation. Cory let the brake link one spot and they
did not drag. The air cylinder extended an retracted correctly. Nothing was noted
really wrong. Will be put back into train service next week.
Loretta said that the North Judson-San Pierre 3rd grade school kids had at
train ride on Friday and had a wonderful time. Looks like a yearly thing now.
Wooden Nickel pizza's were the main staple for lunch. Loretta provided just
picked lettuce from her garden that came up from last year. Was very popular
dish with everyone.
Bruce Emmons worked the gift shop yesterday. Looks goods and is progressing
nicely after his stomach surgery. Showed some pictures of his new house
in the Phillipines, windows were being installed.
Joe Baker was around doing odd jobs around the museum.
Earlier in the week at La Crosse a semi caught the top of the rail at the crossing
north of La Crosse on US 421, destroying a big section of rail. Les reported
on his way home Saturday it looked like temporary repairs have been made.
Hopefully the crossing will be replaced soon, as it is extremely rough to cross.
Any speed results in lots of bumps.
Everyone have a nice weekend, drive safely out there this weekend.
Hope to see you next work session at HVRM.
Tom Travis
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