Greetings one and all!
This past week has seen a return to summer with highs in the upper 80's and low 90's. This was the forecast for North Judson today, but instead it was a cloudy, blue day all day long with light rain on and off keeping the temp down to around 80 degrees. Supposed to jump back to the low 90's tomorrow and Monday (Labor Day) before dropping down into the normal upper 70's later in the week.
Crew brought out Erie Lackawanna 310 to use for the guest engineer program only to encounter a problem with the Alco's brakes. They had to fire up the GE 95 tonner for the guest engineers, pushing the S1 down to the Shop. Doug Kosloske worked on it, and got the brakes working and the 310 was used on the regular passenger runs later in the day.
Tom Rainford worked on a wheel problem on one of the push flats and got some assistance from Bud Tibbie.
Cory Bennett, using some lumber that Bud had furnished just last week, made an enclosure for one of our trailers (see photo 1) to use when hauling museum scrap to scrap dealers. A very nice piece of work, but Cory was a bit blue himself when he couldn't get the lights to work on the trailer. He is shown in the second photo working on the problem. Not sure if it was fixed by the end of the day or not.
Speaking of blue, the third photo shows Steve Henrichs painting one of the levers in Grasselli Tower in this color.
I did a bit of lettering today and the fourth photo shows some of those results on the door of the Mulberry Street watchman's crossing. There was going to be additional lettering, but the drizzle started up again so will have to finish at a later date.
Talked to a couple today in the Pullman Troop Sleeper. They were having no luck finding the deer that Jon Oram had placed on the N scale display layout of North Judson that is located in that car. Seems to get a lot of folks! Seach on!
Finally, and continuing the theme of today's report, the final photo shows a couple of pieces that Mark Knebel had previously painted in blue which he has now put together on one of the museums short display tracks after nicely lettering them. Both of these maintenance-of-way pieces were originally EJ&E, with the railroad itself donating the Fairmont boom car to HVRM quite a few years ago and more recently, Ryan Kertis donating the push flat that was numbered G1 on the J.
Fly the flag on Labor Day and enjoy the holiday. And have a safe week.
Les
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