Gents -
Arrived at the museum around 8:30 a.m. to see this site at the depot (see first photo)! What's going on? Turns out our normal water bill from the town of North Judson is for about 1,700 gallons of water per month. Last month we supposedly used 58,000 gallons! Obviously, we have a leak somewhere. This is the effort to find it around the depot earlier in the week. Unfortunately, the leak was not found there. The second photo was taken a bit later in the morning after they started digging up the old water line. In this shot, Cory Bennett is operating the back hoe, with Mark Knebel down in the ditch while Tom Rainford gives directions. When I left at about 2:30 p.m., this ditch was about four times longer, and the leak still hadn't been found.
A couple of throttle times today. John DeGan was the instructing engineer with Bjarne Henderson as conductor. Later, I noticed Steve Henrichs as the engineer with Joe Kingsbury, Bud Tibbie and Randall Downs as car hosts on the regular passenger trains. Quite a few visitors and riders today including two bus loads of kids from a summer camp up in Gary, Indiana. Good news is that Long Island passenger coach #2937 has had its air conditioning fixed and was in the trains consist. With temps approaching 90 degrees today, that was really good news! Unfortunately, there was a problem with the lights on Bessemer & Lake Erie caboose #1989 and, although Joe Baker tried to find the problem, the caboose was not in the train linedup today.
After painting the dark green trim on the Mulberry Street crossing shanty last Saturday, I decided to tackle the coal bin. The third and fourth photos show the before and after views. Looks a little bit better I think.
Steve Newland has recently started work on the south facing wall on Grasselli Tower which was pealed badly. The fifth photo shows him hard at work while the sixth shot captures the patch already redone.
Doug Kosloske was working on GE #11 in the Shop.
Finally, a couple of shots taken around the museum. The seventh photo shows the start of the flooring in C&EI tool car #A-1054. And in the last photo, the results of someone (perhaps Mark?) giving the disconnected push car as coat of blue paint is shown. Once removed, visitors may wonder why some pieces of Hoosier Valley's ballast were given bright blue paint!
Supposed to be 90 degrees this upcoming week. Stay cool as best you can.
Les
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