Fall Harvest at HVRM on a Rainy Day 10-31-2015

Happy Halloween to All,
 
Saturday was not a good day at HVRM, rainy, cold, an downright miserable outside. But most
of the work was all inside today. A good crowd showed up to do some sort of inside work.
Train crew consisted of Steve Hendrics, engineer, John LaOrange, Bjarne Henderson, conductor.
Bob Barcus an Loretta Koslovske manned the depot selling tickets an gift shop items. A guest
engineer started out the morning runs, an the 12:30 train to English Lake had 55 riders. The
2pm train had not quite 20 to La Crosse for a quick turnaround due to the rainy conditions
outside.
 
Les Beckman worked in Grasselli tower giving tours to visitors an painting the numbers
on the switch levers. 
 
Track work inside the west building went on with tamping ballast, getting sand inside the

building for a base for the concrete. Cory, David, Tom T an Tom, Mark worked on the

project. Bud was around, but his knee was giving him problems again, so he went home.

 

Fred worked on the tool car doing some grinding an sweeping the floor.

 

Not exactly a great day, but some things were worked on. Its getting that time of year when

the days get shorter an colder, so the wood stove will be fired up soon to warm the building.

 

No trains till December, for 3 weekends Santa will do his thing.

 

Have a good week.