Greetings -
After our blizzard this past mid-week with heavy snow and high winds, the day at HVRM was sunny, and with temps in the 40's, saw the melting of much snow and the making of a lot of slush! One good thing about February, it's a short winter month!
Rich Warner's new water tank for the cab of GE diesel #11 is shown in the first photo.
In the second photo, Fred Boyer is shown measuring the new end wall that Joe Kingsbury built for C&EI tool car # A-1054. A tight fit, but Joe was eventually able to get the wall pounded into place. The third photo shows Joe handing up some more 2 x 4's to Tom Travis in the A-1054 so Joe can start building the wall for the other end of the car.
Bud helped with framing the other end of the tool car. The frame went in very smooth, not like the other end
where it had to be beat in with a BIG hammer.
Later in the day, Fred and I opened up Grasselli Tower and continued removing old paint from the levers. They'll get done eventually!
Bob Albert continued his work on the displays in Illinois Central caboose # 9914. A conductor from the South
Shore freight side came down an donated 3 plastic crates of VHS train tapes, an cart full of reading material.
I did not get his name, sorry, but thanks for the GREAT donation.
Mark Knebel continued cutting brush and trees along the right-of-way toward English Lake. Drove by the piles
of trees on the way home, will be nice to pace the tourist train without your view blocked.
Bob Barcus manned the depot gift shop all day.
Good to see Andy Roeske at the museum today!
Katy flat car # 13833, converted by the museum into an open air car, had been jacked up (photo 4) to allow the bolster center plate to be repaired. The slightly separated center plate (photo 5) needs to be welded back into place. Unfortunately, the welder who was supposed to perform the repair was unable to make it to the museum today. Will have to wait for another day to work on it.
Lunch was sausage pizza, fried chicken, rolls, coleslaw and potato wedges from the Wooden Nickel with Louise Kingsbury's homemade chocolate cup cakes for desert.
In the afternoon, Rich's water tank was tested for leaks. The last photo shows Sparky Byers up on the cab of the GE, filling the tank. The tank and system will need to be "tweaked".
Supposed to be near 60 degrees on Sunday, but some snow is due in next week. Hang in there folks, spring is rumored to be right around the corner! Baseball Teams are manning up for spring training.
Remember the EASTER train an the big egg hunt.. Its filling up fast. Lets hope for good weather this year.
Check the HVRM web site for details.
Les
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