Greetings to all!
Steady light rain at the museum today with temps in low 40's. Supposed to change over to snow this evening. We shall see.
Board meeting this morning with interesting discussion including the budget for 2016.
I gave Bob Albert a bit of a hand today in the IC display caboose by painting the numbers and trim on the number plate for C&O 2-8-2 #1165. Results are shown in photo 1. Bob has been working hard in this caboose as shown in the next two photos. The second photo shows the display for the crossing gate controls for West Pullman, Illinois with a shot of the West Pullman, Illinois tower and the track diagram for the tower which controlled the crossing of the Pennsylvania's Panhandle line (the one that ran though North Judson) and the Illinois Central's electrified Blue Island branch on the far south side of Chicago. The third photo is of Bob putting some finishing work on the display for the Plymouth, Indiana interlocking tower showing the Plymouth sign and the model board that was once in the tower. Bob is also going to be adding some photos to this display.
Also being done today was John LaOrange and Tom Rainford removing a tank from the frame of GE diesel number 11.
Bob Jachim was working on the Governor's Desk in the Shop building as shown in the 4th photo.
Joe Kingsbury, Cory Bennett, Fred Boyer and David Cook continued their work on C&EI tool car #A-1054. Recently we showed photos of the window frames being put in in this car. Good to report that all the windows have now being finished and a set of three on one end of the car is shown in the 5th photo. These windows can be opened and the middle window is shown in the partially opened position.
This coming Monday, the concrete pour for the last rear section in the West Annex of the Shop will be done. The final photo shows this area ready for the concrete.
Despite all of the rain and dismal conditions, we actually had some visitors walking around at the end of the day. One gentleman explained that his father worked on both Metra (Illinois Central) Highliner's number 1502 and 1509 at the museum. He made a suggestion as to how they could be put into service as passenger cars; something to consider.
Next week is the museum's annual meeting. Elections will be held. It's encouraged that all try to make it to the museum for the meeting. It will be held at the North Judson Library at 1:00 p.m. and all members can vote if they meet the requirements of an active membership for the last 6 months.
Cold January-like weather is supposedly on the agenda for the coming week. Stay warm everyone!
Les
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