Greetings,
Saturday dawned downright cold here at North Judson. But it warmed up to comfortable
temps by noon. Not a cloud in the sky, made it a great day for the pumpkin patch.
I arrived late Saturday morning for the 10am train, having slept in a bit longer than normal.
The train was pulling out of the station as I arrived. Went to have a cup of coffee in the
kitchen car an a bite to eat, then into the depot to see what was going on. Helped Bob
Barcus with tickets an orange tickets for pumpkins an putting them into a box for later
retrieval. Soon people started to show up for the 12:30pm train an handed out prepaid
tickets packets. Kept the ticket lines down to a minimum. About 12:15 a request for a
car host on the EJ&E handicap car went out, I volunteered in a flash. Ran the wheel
chair lift for a number of folks during the afternoon. Enjoyed the nice train ride up to
English Lake an out to the park area. Unloading an loading have been speeded up with
newly dumped gravel spotted for steps on all cars. The train was unloaded in record time.
Cory, David, Mark were busy at the park with placing pumpkins on the grass. Mark provided
crossing protection at grade crossing. A larger force for IN 10 grade crossing was in effect
during the day, plus signals worked great also.
Bob, Loretta worked in the gift shop/ticket areas. The G guage train ran for the crowds of
kids inside the depot. Plenty of pottys spotted out back of the depot helped in keeping long
lines inside to a minimum.
The monthly board meeting has been moved to October 24th at 8am, due to on going
operations on the 10th. Next weekend will have 3 more pumpkin trains. A count of just
over 500 people was reported for Saturday. A membership meeting will be held November
21st at 1pm in the depot. Nominations for President, Treasurer, 2 director positions are
up for vote in January. Sign up sheet is in the kitchen car. Saw Joe Baker working near
Tom Tittles storage van putting in an electrical panel an possibly a yard light on a wood
pole. Engineer was John DeGan, Conductor was Steve Hendrics. A number of other members
were car hosts on different cars for the day. Richard Warner, Joe Kingsbury, Randall Downs,
Bud, Bob Albert made up the car hosts. Not much of anything else was done for the day.
See you next week for the pumpkin trains.
Tom Travis
Saturday dawned downright cold here at North Judson. But it warmed up to comfortable
temps by noon. Not a cloud in the sky, made it a great day for the pumpkin patch.
I arrived late Saturday morning for the 10am train, having slept in a bit longer than normal.
The train was pulling out of the station as I arrived. Went to have a cup of coffee in the
kitchen car an a bite to eat, then into the depot to see what was going on. Helped Bob
Barcus with tickets an orange tickets for pumpkins an putting them into a box for later
retrieval. Soon people started to show up for the 12:30pm train an handed out prepaid
tickets packets. Kept the ticket lines down to a minimum. About 12:15 a request for a
car host on the EJ&E handicap car went out, I volunteered in a flash. Ran the wheel
chair lift for a number of folks during the afternoon. Enjoyed the nice train ride up to
English Lake an out to the park area. Unloading an loading have been speeded up with
newly dumped gravel spotted for steps on all cars. The train was unloaded in record time.
Cory, David, Mark were busy at the park with placing pumpkins on the grass. Mark provided
crossing protection at grade crossing. A larger force for IN 10 grade crossing was in effect
during the day, plus signals worked great also.
Bob, Loretta worked in the gift shop/ticket areas. The G guage train ran for the crowds of
kids inside the depot. Plenty of pottys spotted out back of the depot helped in keeping long
lines inside to a minimum.
The monthly board meeting has been moved to October 24th at 8am, due to on going
operations on the 10th. Next weekend will have 3 more pumpkin trains. A count of just
over 500 people was reported for Saturday. A membership meeting will be held November
21st at 1pm in the depot. Nominations for President, Treasurer, 2 director positions are
up for vote in January. Sign up sheet is in the kitchen car. Saw Joe Baker working near
Tom Tittles storage van putting in an electrical panel an possibly a yard light on a wood
pole. Engineer was John DeGan, Conductor was Steve Hendrics. A number of other members
were car hosts on different cars for the day. Richard Warner, Joe Kingsbury, Randall Downs,
Bud, Bob Albert made up the car hosts. Not much of anything else was done for the day.
See you next week for the pumpkin trains.
Tom Travis
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