Greetings,
Wonderful fall day at North Judson today. In the mid 60's, clear sky, nice breeze.
Some items from Friday, Doug, John, Cory, Richard performed a 92 day inspection
on the ERIE 310. Some mechanical issues were taken care of on the tamper. A never
ending tightening up bolts issue. Bing, worked on the brick sidewalk on the side of
the stairs leading up to Mark's office. When the old steps were removed during renovation
of the building, some bricks were uprooted. Bing cut a tie, enclosed the walkway an
reset the bricks. The above picture shows the finished job. Nice work Bing.
Early Saturday morning, the depot workers set up the Halloween decorations for the
dusk train ride to La Crosse. The depot deck looked good. The train had 191 paying
passengers, all who had a good time an nice animal show at La Crosse. The train arrived
back at HVRM around 7pm and where amazed by the lighted signals lining the tracks
an the lighted Grasselli tower on the 2nd level. What a nice display.
Earlier that morning, the track crew was out busy at CR 400South taking up the asphalt
an old remnants of the crossing in preparation for replacing ties an rebuilding the
crossing Sunday. Cory, John, Richard, Mark an David were the crew members. Last week
CR 500 South crossing was replaced an asphalted on Tuesday. This makes all the crossings
in Starke county replaced on the CKIN line, cept for the Mulberry St crossing.
Les took the pictures above. Also got Steve Newland replacing the downspouts
at Grasselli tower with the manlift also. Nice work Steve.
Les worked on painting window frames on the D&RGW passenger cat an doing some
priming rust spots.
That is the end of regular season operations, cept for the Christmas trains in
December. Hopefully some inside projects will get started, new woodburning
stove, rebuilding tool car, an the ND&W diesel engine.
That's it for this week, come on down an help out inside the shop buildings, lots
to do everywhere.
Tom Travis
Wonderful fall day at North Judson today. In the mid 60's, clear sky, nice breeze.
Some items from Friday, Doug, John, Cory, Richard performed a 92 day inspection
on the ERIE 310. Some mechanical issues were taken care of on the tamper. A never
ending tightening up bolts issue. Bing, worked on the brick sidewalk on the side of
the stairs leading up to Mark's office. When the old steps were removed during renovation
of the building, some bricks were uprooted. Bing cut a tie, enclosed the walkway an
reset the bricks. The above picture shows the finished job. Nice work Bing.
Early Saturday morning, the depot workers set up the Halloween decorations for the
dusk train ride to La Crosse. The depot deck looked good. The train had 191 paying
passengers, all who had a good time an nice animal show at La Crosse. The train arrived
back at HVRM around 7pm and where amazed by the lighted signals lining the tracks
an the lighted Grasselli tower on the 2nd level. What a nice display.
Earlier that morning, the track crew was out busy at CR 400South taking up the asphalt
an old remnants of the crossing in preparation for replacing ties an rebuilding the
crossing Sunday. Cory, John, Richard, Mark an David were the crew members. Last week
CR 500 South crossing was replaced an asphalted on Tuesday. This makes all the crossings
in Starke county replaced on the CKIN line, cept for the Mulberry St crossing.
Les took the pictures above. Also got Steve Newland replacing the downspouts
at Grasselli tower with the manlift also. Nice work Steve.
Les worked on painting window frames on the D&RGW passenger cat an doing some
priming rust spots.
That is the end of regular season operations, cept for the Christmas trains in
December. Hopefully some inside projects will get started, new woodburning
stove, rebuilding tool car, an the ND&W diesel engine.
That's it for this week, come on down an help out inside the shop buildings, lots
to do everywhere.
Tom Travis
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