Greetings,
Saturday was a wonderful day for trains. Cool breezes made the open air car very enjoyable to ride.
Good crowd on the first run, 2nd run was not too bad, smaller than first. The LIRR car went unused.
Everyone decided that the open air car or Bessemer caboose was the norm. Had one wheelchair
on the first run, family members rode with him on the EJ&E caboose. A new member, Terry manned
the lift an got some car hosting on the transfer caboose. Don Nickle from the INDY area was up
training on conductor duties. John DeGan was engineer, Steve Hendrichs was conductor. Bjarne
Henderson was student engineer today. Randall Downs did car host duties on open air car.
Bob Barcus an Loretta Kosloske were depot workers.
During down time, Mark Knebel has been repainting milepost markers on the line. Picture 1 is
one of the newly painted and numbered mileposts with first guest engineer on the way back east.
That's conductor Steve Hendrich's sitting on the platform of the Alco. Milepost 217 needs
to have some trees cut down to make it more open.
Picture 2. Bjarne Henderson scrapping the peeling paint from the Troop Sleeper wood windows.
Saturday was a wonderful day for trains. Cool breezes made the open air car very enjoyable to ride.
Good crowd on the first run, 2nd run was not too bad, smaller than first. The LIRR car went unused.
Everyone decided that the open air car or Bessemer caboose was the norm. Had one wheelchair
on the first run, family members rode with him on the EJ&E caboose. A new member, Terry manned
the lift an got some car hosting on the transfer caboose. Don Nickle from the INDY area was up
training on conductor duties. John DeGan was engineer, Steve Hendrichs was conductor. Bjarne
Henderson was student engineer today. Randall Downs did car host duties on open air car.
Bob Barcus an Loretta Kosloske were depot workers.
During down time, Mark Knebel has been repainting milepost markers on the line. Picture 1 is
one of the newly painted and numbered mileposts with first guest engineer on the way back east.
That's conductor Steve Hendrich's sitting on the platform of the Alco. Milepost 217 needs
to have some trees cut down to make it more open.
Picture 2. Bjarne Henderson scrapping the peeling paint from the Troop Sleeper wood windows.
Picture 3. After the windows were scraped, Bjarne put Kilz primer on them.
Picture 4. New section of track in West Annex of Shop after ballast was put down today.
Some inside work done by Cory Bennett, Mark Knebel, Dave Cook, John LaOrange.
Ballast was hauled down to the shop on the dump truck. The back-hoe
tractor spread it out over the track that had been spiked down last week.
Tamping was done by putting the air compressor outside the door, air tampers did
a quick job of tamping ballast. Next will be bringing sand for go on the dirt floor.
Steel angle iron needs to be welded to inside of rail for wheel flanges.
All of the tractors still fit inside, but is a tight sqeeze.
Joe was putting up the first section of insulation in the ceiling of C&EI tool car #A-1054,
but photo didn't come out. The new kitchen car is moving along now,
During the week, a new compressor for the LIRR coach car showed up, was on a
pallet near the shop door. Also on the floor was a new drill press all wrapped up.
No idea where it came from.
GE #11 still waiting for parts the engine. ALCO ERIE 310 running great.
Les Beckman started the day by painting numbers on the Whitcombs number boards.
Nests of wasps are in every little hole on the Whitcomb, as I was hit twice, once on the
wrist an once on the back of my neck. Need to get some wasp spray next week
to kill off these little pests, they are everywhere.
Thanks to Les Beckman for supplying photos in todays report.
Have a wonderful week an start watching out for those school busses back on
the road in the mornings an afternoons. School has resumed.
Tom Travis
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