Greetings!
Old Man Winter doesn't want to quit! After a horrible weather day on Friday, woke up this morning to ice on the roadways. Managed no more than 35 m.p.h. (mostly less than that) all the way to Starke County. There was an 8:00 a.m. Board meeting, but needless to say, I arrived late! Temps were in the low to mid 30's but a bright sun for most of the day, plus salt on the roads, finally managed to melt the slick conditions despite the bitter cold wind.
Spent a bit of time watching the gift shop in the depot as we had a light member turnout and Bob Barcus had to run to the bank to make some deposits.
Then went up to Grasselli Tower where I photographed the northwest corner (photo 1). Steve Henrichs has his painted lockers ready to bring into the tower and through one of these windows is the way he wants to get it up to the second floor. I talked to Cory Bennett in the afternoon about this and he didn't seem to know that this was the plan but said it probably could be done, providing the lockers fit through the window opening. I measured and they do, providing they come in sideways.
I spent much of the morning, trying to get one of the levers in Grasselli pushed into the "back" position. Finally managed to get it done, but it was a struggle.
Bud Tibbie invited me over to his house in North Judson to see his newly acquired Milwaukee Road HO gauge S3 class Northern, number 265. A beautiful engine to say the least. And quite a layout that Bud has abuilding there.
Was over at the West Annex of the Shop in the afternoon and found the work ongoing on Chicago & Eastern Illinois tool car #A-1054. Here are some shots of the progress:
Photo 2 shows Joe Baker using one of our shop vacs to clean up some of the sawdust and dirt.
Photo 3 shows Joe Baker's "helper" Nick K. (sorry Nick, I already forgot your last name) finishing up some of the electrical work.
Photo 4 features Joe Kingsbury cutting one of the short supports, which are visible in the previous two photos.
Finally, in the 5th photo, the cage for the air conditioning unit is shown in one of the cars windows. Some day we will be eating our summer lunches at the museum in cool comfort!
Mark Knebel was out cutting brush again today.
Sparky Byers and John LaOrange worked on GE diesel number 11.
More winter-like weather moving in tonight and into tomorrow. Come on OId Man Winter....GIVE IT UP!
Les
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