Greetings!
Arrived at the museum a bit after 9:00 a.m. to find a strange new artifact on the premises. Turns out that one of the old telephone poles that the museum had acquired eons ago, had rotted at the base during the week and the wind had actually broken it with only the wire holding it in place. The far end of the electric line ends up entering the old C&O motor car shed and photo one shows the pipe at an angle which also caused the electrical box inside the shed to be pulled from the wall. After it happened, Tom Tittle suggested trying to use one of the poles that ran down the old C&O right of way and one was found in very good condition and was used as a replacement. The second photo shows Cory Bennett up on the Lift putting the line on a couple of the old insulators. Then the electrical box had to be put back in place. I gave Tom Rainford a hand on this part of the project and the third photo shows Tom hard at work. Incidentally, Tom jumped about two feet when the flash went off when I took this photo. Flashes when fooling around with electricity are not a good idea. Sorry about that Tom! The fourth photo shows our new Chesapeake & Ohio artifact at the end of the day. Sure looks good!
We had some guest engineers this morning using GE Interlake Steel diesel #11. Trains for the day included the 11, EJ&E transfer caboose #184, MKT open car #13833 and LIRR coach #2937. John DeGan was engineer with Bjarne Henderson as conductor. Car hosts included Matt Downs, Randall Downs, Joe Kingsbury, Louise Kingsbury, Rich Warner and Bud Tribbie. Bud pointed out to me that there was a nut and washer missing from the ramp between EJ&E 184 and the open car and I managed to search the old Erie shed and find one and put it on before the 12:30 train to English Lake left the depot.
Fred Boyer and Steve Newland continued their work on the repainting of the south wall of Grasselli Tower.
Margarett Cook cleaned out some additional items from GTW transfer caboose #75072 and I took all of the stuff that remained and tossed it out. Appreciate Bing Risley's help in taking the old rugs over to the dumpster and for Bud's help in cutting those rugs into smaller pieces for the disposal. Only one cabinet remains in 75072, and Margarett says that she wants to save this for later use. One other item saved was a plastic display case that Bob Barcus put in the gift shop in the museums depot.
Bob Albert continues working on displays for Illinois Central caboose 9914. Bob's shown in photo 5 in the Shop, doing some cutting on the radial saw. Some of the pieces shown are for a future exhibit of NKP oil drums. Not sure exactly what that means, but I guess we will eventually find out!
Doug McGill came down to the museum earlier this week and loaded up his Plymouth 4 wheel diesel, with some assistance from Cory Bennett.
This afternoon, Cory showed me some chains in the Shop that belong to member Ron Schlatter and are maked with his name. Good looking set of chains!
Just as I was leaving this afternoon, I suddenly realized that Mark Knebel had repainted the Nickel Plate Road camp car (our kitchen car) recently, as shown in the final photo. Looks real good! Might have to try to reletter the car now. I did try some lettering on another project this afternoon, but the less said about that effort, the better!
So, some deterioration is not always bad as it resulted today in a new genuine railroad telegraph pole being placed on museum property and shabby looking paint on our kitchen car being replaced with a new sharp paint job.
Enjoy the summer weather folks! Autumn is right around the corner.
Les
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