Greetings!
Temps in the mid-90's at North Judson today. Got to the museum in time for the regular bi-monthly membership/business meeting. After the meeting, I found some dark green paint and started painting the trim on the Mulberry Street watchman's crossing shanty. Sweat pouring off!
Tom Travis reported that long time member Harold Russell had passed away. Harold had once worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
After the meeting, I found a can of dark green paint and started painting the trim on the Mulber
We had at least two Guest Engineers this morning. Doug Kosloske was engineer for the passenger trains today, with Bob Albert as conductor. LIRR passenger coach 2937 still out of service due to air conditioning problems so train consisted of NKP bay window caboose #471, MKT open air car, EJ&E transfer caboose #184 and B&LE cupola caboose #1989.
Bob Jachim provided crossing protection at the Mulberry Street crossing today while Tom Travis travelled out in his van to provide protection for the trains at Arlington Street, CR500 South, CR400 South, English Lake Road, Toto Road and CR650 West.
They decided to move the recently sold Porter 0-4-2T steam engine # 6 over to the loading area which necessitated switching cars around. Also being moved over to the loading area was privately owned Plymouth diesel #1881. Some photos of the moves are included. Interlake Steel GE diesel #11 was used for this operation with John LaOrange at the throttle and Cory Bennett and Tom Rainford on the ground.
Steve Newland recently applied new oil based primer to a patch on the south side of Grasselli Tower and today he put a coat of light green paint over that primer. This side of Grasselli had experienced a lot of paint peeling and hopefully this new primer will solve that problem.
Stay safe everyone. Enjoy the summer weather.
Les
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