Greetings -
Beautiful day at Hoosier Valley today to greet the first regularly scheduled passenger runs. Temps in the 70's and sunny all day!
Day started out with Guest Engineers. New schedule of two trains (down from three last year) with the English Lake departure at
12:30 p.m. and the La Crosse departure at 2:00 p.m. Due to the tie replacement ongoing, trains were held to 10 miles per hour
between the depot and English Lake resulting in longer runs. Then there was a sticking brake on the 12:30 train, meaning a later
departure for the second train which did not leave North Judson until 2:30. The departure of the La Crosse train from the depot is
shown in the first photo. Don't know the figures, but both trains seemed to have a decent amount of riders. John Kimsey was the
engineer and John DeGan was fireman, Bjarne Henderson and Doug Kosloske were conductors with car hosts Bill Dauber and
Randall Downs.
One always ongoing job at HVRM is cutting grass. Bing Risley was doing it this morning and Joe Kingsbury (see second photo)
this afternoon.
I managed to get some primer on the one wall of Mulberry Street watchman's shanty and the lid of the coal bin. Still have to put on
some Bonzai tint (light green) after we get some new gallons from Sherwin-Williams.
Big news of the day was that the house and garage on Pleasant Street, that the museum had acquired some time ago, were torn
down today. The last photo shows Cory Bennett, Bob Albert (with shovel), John LaOrange (up on the peak) and Dave Cook, taking
off roof shingles from the collapsed house. I joined them for a while this afternoon. Good day to work up a sweat!
Bruce Fingerhut reported to me that he had planted 40 white pines out at the rest park on the biking/hiking/walking trail at SR 10/39
and CR 250W. A welcome addition to the spot that I (unofficially) think of as "Wayside Glen" as the railroad name.
Enjoy the week everyone!
Steve
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