Sunday, October 18, 2015

Pumpkins Trains 10-17-2015

Greetings,

A cool but beautiful day Saturday for the end of a very successful Pumpkin Train event. A total
of over 480 plus people rode the train for Saturday. Many happy  riders with the best pumpkins
for last.
 
Trains crew consisted of John LaOrange as engineer, Bob Albert conductor. Tom Travis EJ&E car, Randall
Down & Matt Downs in the MKT open  air car, Joe Kingsbury Richard Warner LIRR coach, Bud Erie caboose,
Tom NKP caboose.  In the depot were Bob Barcus an Loretta Kosloske. Margret  Cook provide lunch. Cory
Bennitt, David Cook, Mark Kniebel set up an put out pumpkins at the park. Mark Kniebel provided road
crossing guard, Bob Jachim provided crossing guard at museum & IN 10 & 39 crossing.
 
Fred Boyer came over only to look around after having bypass surgery some 10 days ago, looks good.
Elmer Manning had a hospital visit an has an inner ear infection, send him a greeting at elm.mm3@comcast.net
to cheer him up.
 
A group of 14 HVRM workers got together at the Wooden Nickel for dinner Saturday evening, good  time
had by everyone.
 
Next week at 8am is monthly board meeting in the depot. November is monthly membership meeting
is now at 1 pm on November 21st.
 
Everyone have a good week, enjoy the last nice days of summer, on November 1st fall back 1 hour at 2am.
 
Tom Travis  

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