Sunday, November 29, 2015

A Rube Goldberg type "invention" highlights HVRM 11/28/15

Greeting to All,
 
Photos were provided by Les Beckman. Pretty well shows the activities of the past week an this
past Saturday. Les came up with the Rube Goldberg saying. Its an idea of using a furnace fan to
help move the heat at the ceiling around the buildings lower levels.


Photo 1 - New concrete pad in the West Annex-Was poured last Tuesday. Approx 7.5
yards was used. Workers were Cory, Dave, John an unknown other person.

Photo 2 - Dave Cook and Cory Bennett at work on the "invention" in the West Annex over the wood furnace.

Photo 3 - Cory and Dave set the "invention" (blower) in place.

Photo 4 - By gum, it works!  Congrats to Cory and Dave!

Photo 5 - Oil tank beneath C&EI tool car #A-1054 which needs to be removed. While the floor
is open, torching off the old kerosene or fuel oil tank was performed. Could be used to store
fuel for some machines.

Photo 6 - Cory with torch, cutting off the supports for said tank.

Joe Kingsbury worked on the tool car floor putting floor supports in. Every one needs to be
cut to the profile of the metal in the car. A very tedious job. Some of the flooring is down,
providing a stable place to stand on.
 
Bob Barcus & Bob Jachim were her early to open up the depot, Margret provide lunch for
the workers.
 
Next weekend will be busy, the Santa Claus Trains will  start. I'm sure a lot of members will show
up to provide assistance. Come on out an enjoy the Christmas spirt at HVRM
 
Everyone have a good week. Hard to go back to work after being off for 5 days, but it
will be a short 3 weeks till Christmas vacation for school workers.
 
Tom Travis

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