Greetings!
Nice day at Hoosier Valley today. Still warm, but also less humid.
Arrived at the museum about 9:00 a.m. Found Bob Jachim and Mark Knebel in the final work of restoring the torn up ground around the back wall of the museums depot building. You may recall this area being torn up from last weeks report as the museum searched for a serious water leak. Photo 1 shows Bob in the background with Mark working around the water meter.
When the leak wasn't found near the depot, museum personnel started looking for the leak on the old water line using the Payloader to dig a trench. Results of that effort is shown in the second photo. In the end, the water leak wasn't found....TWO water leaks were found. The museum intends to replace the old line.
Other things going on around the museum included Dave Cook draining the oil out of the fuel tank of 0-4-2T number 6 (see photo 3).
I spent some time adding white paint to some of the numerals on the newly painted levers in Grasselli Tower.
There were a number of Throttle Time participants this morning and the regular trains of 12:30 to English Lake and 2:00 to La Crosse were operated. The departure of the La Crosse train is shown in the fourth photo with Conductor Steve Henrichs at the right on the platform of GE #11 with student Conductor Kevin Kennedy on the left. Doug Kosloske was engineer for all of todays runs. The fifth photo shows the train westbound past Grasselli Tower. Note that B&LE caboose #1989 is still not in the consist.
Fried chicken from the Wooden Nickel for lunch today.
Steve Newland continued his work on the south side of Grasselli (photo 6).
Mike Koehler, with help from a friend of his, worked on his LIRR RS-1 #467.
Tom Travis is shown in the process of adding some corner trim to the Payloader shed in photo 7 while he is shown cutting a piece of trim to the right size in the eighth photo.
Bob Albert was working on exhibits for the ICRR display caboose. He had to destroy a wasp nest over the platform of Illinois Central caboose #9914. Way to go Bob!
Bob, Tom and myself did some repairs to the wood stepladder shown in photo 7.
Supposed to have moderating temps this week with highs in the upper 70's to low 80's. Sounds good to me! Have a great week everyone!
Les
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