A hot and muggy day at HVRM 6/13/15

Greetings!

Managed to make it down for most of the Board meeting at Hoosier Valley yesterday.  Sunny all day with temps well into the upper 80's and

high humidity.  Good day to make one sweat!

There were a number of guest engineers running GE Interlake Steel number 11 this morning.  Steve Henrichs asked me to flag Arlington Street

and CR500W on the last of these runs so he wouldn't have to get off of the caboose to flag each of those crossings, and I obliged.  This was

a definite non-sweat job, but I forgot my ear protection.  The horn on the back of B&LE caboose #1989 is LOUD!

Back at the museum after these runs, Steve, who was conductor for the day, is shown in the first photo making sure that the brake valve on

EJ&E caboose #184 was operating correctly (it was!) and then is shown in the second photo just a bit later putting the air hoses on the EJ&E

and B&LE cabooses together after the regular passenger train was coupled to the Bessemer caboose.  Yes, that is Steve in the second photo,

even though his face is hidden!  John DeGan was engineer for the day on both the guest engineer runs and the regular passenger trains.

I went up to Grasselli Tower and painted white numbers on the five levers that Steve had painted earlier.  Steve thought that the levers looked

okay without the white painted numbers, and he may be right.  I told him that if he didn't like the numbers in white, he could paint over them with

the red, blue and green paint.  Results are in the third photo.

Fred Boyer continued his work on the exterior of the C&EI tool car using the green man lift  to get up to the top of the car as you can see in the

fourth photo.  Fred has done a heck of a lot of work on C&EI #A-1054.

Finally, in the last photo, new member Ryan Osmolski is shown cleaning up the B&O steam whistle that was on the Notre Dame & Western

Porter diesel.  Looking better already!

Other members were working on HVRM track, Bing Risley was cutting grass, Bob Barcus was in the gift shop, Loretta Kosloslke was the

ticket agent for the day while Bob Jachim provided crossing protection for trains at Mulberry Street.

Stay cool this week!

Les