Greetings!
Saturday, July 2nd, 2016 turned out to be a beautiful day weatherwise at Hoosier Valley. Temps in the low 70's with a nice breeze and plenty of sunshine. Membership was just a bit light today which could be expected because of the Holiday weekend.
Two guest engineers this morning and with GE #11 still not available, EL Alco # 310 with used.
Work on the GE continues and the first photo shows Rich Warner (at left) and Tom Rainford on the hood of the 95-tonner, while John La Orange looks through the old maintenance manual.
Mark Knebel and Jason Ciastko put some more ties in on the Main Street end of the museum property.
Tom Travis and I dug out the replacement air pipe that was made a number of years ago by HVRM's Canadian member, Ross Robinson. This pipe was never put on GTW transfer caboose # 75072 due to the fact that it was taken out of service and used as a static location. Today, we did some preliminary work on the installation but then Tom was asked to assist on the train as a car host. A project now just a bit closer to getting done.
Steve Newland put some new exterior window trim pieces on the second floor of Grasselli Tower. The second photo shows him up on the lift while the third photo is a shot taken from the interior of the tower.
Bob Albert continued working on displays in ICRR caboose number 9914.
I didn't get a passenger count for the two trains, but there seemed to be a good number of folks that came out today to ride our two English Lake trains.
Have a good week everyone. Don't forget to fly the flag on July 4th and remember our struggle to establish this great country!
Les
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