Folks -
Arrived at the museum to find that Bob Barcus had had three bright red "KEEP OFF TRACKS" signs made for the split rail fence
across from the North Judson depot. Bob used the drill press in the Shop to drill holes in the signs, then removed the old signs
(no longer readable) and screwed the new signs into the wood rails in the fence. I held the signs in place. This is the kind of job
I like; Bob did all the work! Photo of one of the signs included with this report. Hopefully these new signs will keep visitors from
the dangerous practice of wandering onto the tracks to take pictures.
Gave Bob a box of Operation Lifesaver coffee mugs, donated by member Joe Gasiorek. Bob will add these to the various items
being sold in the museums gift shop. Thanks to Joe for this gift which will hopefully bring in a few extra bucks to HVRM.
While down at the Shop building, I noticed Fred Boyer cleaning the sides of C&EI tool car #A-1054.
Threw another bunch of extra day lilies from home (Betty said we had too many) into the East flower bed at the museum. The
three different color irises in the bed are currently blooming (see second photo).
Spent the rest of the day, scraping peeling paint, wire brushing the metal and then priming that part of the passenger coach below
the windows. Cool weather and rain, stopped this job last fall, and now I'm going to paint this part of the car with Pullman Green
paint the next time I'm at Hoosier Valley. The results of todays effort is shown in the third photo, which was taken from the manlift
after I had finished for the day.
Not sure what else was going on at the museum today. Cory Bennett was running the Payloader. Operating crew for the two runs
included Steve Henrichs at the throttle of GE #11 with Doug Kosloske as fireman/instructor; Joe Kingsbury and Randall Downs
as car hosts and Bob Albert as Conductor. There were also some guest engineers in the morning, but not sure how many.
Enjoy the long holiday weekend everyone!
Les
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