Greetings!
Well, the plan was to pour concrete in the middle section of the West Annex today. Unfortunately, heavy rains hit the area overnight and into this morning. HVRM was the only customer scheduled for an INSIDE pour, so with all of the scheduled outside pours cancelled, it did not make any sense to open up the plant for just us, so the company closed down for the day. The pour WILL happen; hopefully in the very near future!
Arrived at HVRM at about quarter to ten and the second guest engineer was out on the road. Two brothers took the two slots this morning, which is believed to be a first! I noticed on the way in that the steel mileage post next to concrete m.p. 215 that was talked about the last couple of weeks, was no longer there. Persistence obviously pays off!
Doug Kosloske and John LaOrange shared engineer duties for the day with the other handling the conductor job. Except for the last regularly scheduled passenger runs when Bob Albert took over the conductor duties as Doug had to leave early. Rain, and the threat of rain, helped hold down ridership for the two regular runs to somewhere in the 30's....total!
With the concrete pour cancelled, there was a number of folks around to help with the installation of roof panels in C&EI tool car #A-1054 after Joe Baker had put in the new fluorescent lighting. The first photo shows Dave Cook putting some nails is while the second shot shows the results as of the break for lunch. A number of people helped out on this besides Dave including Kevin Kennedy, Cory Bennett and Tom Rainford. I probably missed some others.
I had some work to do in passenger coach 899 so after opening up Grasselli Tower, I pretty much disappeared for the efforts on 899. Steve Newland showed up and painted the trim for the rest of the second floor windows on the tower's south side (see photo 3).
Bob Albert put up another photo of a watchman's crossing shanty in our Mulberry Street shanty. This one is a photo of an Erie shanty taken in Decatur, Indiana. Bob also showed us some photos of additional photos for Illinois Central #9914, our display caboose. Bob's been busy!
I don't believe GE #11 has been tested yet. The museum continues to rely on EL Alco # 310 for all work.
Others on hand today included Bob Jachim, Loretta Kosloske, Mark Knebel, Randall Downs, Joe Kingsbury, Margrett Cook, Tom Royce and I know I missed some folks. Sorry about that!
Have a good week everyone!
Les
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