Folks -
Below is Tom Travis's museum report for Saturday, 9/12/15. I've also added a short
addition at the end.
Les
Greetings to all,
Saturday morning dawned at 53 degrees, cool for this time of the year. Over to the
west were rain showers, to the east was sunny. Down in North Judson it was right
in the middle, sun, wind, no rain. Sort of a perfect day.
Arrived around 8 AM to the museum. The Erie 310 was already outside, pulled the
C&O 2789 outside. Board meeting to start at 8am an was over by 9am. The big item
was to put gravel down at the city park for the fall trains, so unloading/loading could
be accomplished. Getting the used oil in barrels sold or removed from the museum.
Cleanup of scrap metal was high on the list also.
Soon after the meeting was over, Cory pulled the trailer over to the scrap metal pile
an was promptly filled up with scrap metal. Made a sizeable dent in the pile, with
one more trailer load to be loaded up next week. The sides of the trailer will be taken
off for boxes of pumpkins for the park. Two potties will be put down at the city park
for the month of October. This should speed up things for loading trains back up.
Steve Newland was noted working on removing old paint from Grasselli tower, an putting
primer on the wood.
I was asked to be a car host on the 12:30pm train to English Lake. Getting back to HVRM,
the train was made ready for the yearly trip up rare mileage track to Thomaston. Again
I rode the train on the EJ&E transfer caboose running the chair lift for a couple of passengers.
The trip was getting breezy out of La Crosse, but moved inside out of the wind. A short
stop at La Crosse while the Erie 310 was run around the wye for the return trip to North
Judson. Train arrival was a little before 5pm. Most of the HVRM volunteers rode the train.
Only a couple of people remained at the museum. A good time was had by everyone.
A good crowd on both trains today.
Fred Boyer had a large group of friends on the 12:30 trip using the EJ&E caboose.
Fred also did some needlegunning on the east end of the tool car.
John LaOrange put in a string of lights in the tool car for better visibility inside.
Matt Lasayko installed some new security cameras today.
Next Saturday is membership meeting at 8am in the depot. Have a safe week..
Tom
Saturday morning dawned at 53 degrees, cool for this time of the year. Over to the
west were rain showers, to the east was sunny. Down in North Judson it was right
in the middle, sun, wind, no rain. Sort of a perfect day.
Arrived around 8 AM to the museum. The Erie 310 was already outside, pulled the
C&O 2789 outside. Board meeting to start at 8am an was over by 9am. The big item
was to put gravel down at the city park for the fall trains, so unloading/loading could
be accomplished. Getting the used oil in barrels sold or removed from the museum.
Cleanup of scrap metal was high on the list also.
Soon after the meeting was over, Cory pulled the trailer over to the scrap metal pile
an was promptly filled up with scrap metal. Made a sizeable dent in the pile, with
one more trailer load to be loaded up next week. The sides of the trailer will be taken
off for boxes of pumpkins for the park. Two potties will be put down at the city park
for the month of October. This should speed up things for loading trains back up.
Steve Newland was noted working on removing old paint from Grasselli tower, an putting
primer on the wood.
I was asked to be a car host on the 12:30pm train to English Lake. Getting back to HVRM,
the train was made ready for the yearly trip up rare mileage track to Thomaston. Again
I rode the train on the EJ&E transfer caboose running the chair lift for a couple of passengers.
The trip was getting breezy out of La Crosse, but moved inside out of the wind. A short
stop at La Crosse while the Erie 310 was run around the wye for the return trip to North
Judson. Train arrival was a little before 5pm. Most of the HVRM volunteers rode the train.
Only a couple of people remained at the museum. A good time was had by everyone.
A good crowd on both trains today.
Fred Boyer had a large group of friends on the 12:30 trip using the EJ&E caboose.
Fred also did some needlegunning on the east end of the tool car.
John LaOrange put in a string of lights in the tool car for better visibility inside.
Matt Lasayko installed some new security cameras today.
Next Saturday is membership meeting at 8am in the depot. Have a safe week..
Tom
An addition for Monday, September 14th. Ended up going to the museum today and working
on passenger coach #899. Couple of photos included showing the car partially painted below
the window rail (I used the lift today), a second shot from the end showing the poor previous
paint results and the final result at the end of today. Also discovered that Mark Knebel had
painted the Whitcomb and he showed up to finish some of the hand rails. Two photos of
the Whitcomb are also included, one of which shows Mark at work. I'm going to suggest
that we change the units number. Years ago, we assigned number 27 to the Whitcomb as
we did not have the units history. Now we have it and would like assign the number 950 to
the unit, which it wore when working for the Chicago Gravel Company.
Les
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