Greetings!
Great weather day at HVRM today with temps in the upper 70's, low humidity and sunshine all day! Great way to start the 3 day summer holiday!
Steve Henrichs cleaned up six (6!) additional levers in Grasselli Tower today. I stayed out of his way until he was finished and then went up and cleaned the paint and dirt fragments up. Next up for these levers will be painting. Steve Newland arrived and painted some window trim then found the Lift and chugged it over to the south side of the tower. Caught him up there in the first photo. Incidentally, that's our ex-New York Central (Michigan Central) 100' turntable in the foreground. The second and third photos show Steve working on taking some of the old trim off those upper floor windows.
After a number of Saturdays where we had low ridership's for our trains to English Lake, Loretta Kosloske reported that we had 100 riders for the first train today. Lower count for the second train. but still a very good day! Bjarne Henderson and Doug Kosloske handled the throttle of ALCO 310 today and John DeGan and Bjarne were conductors. I flagged the Mulberry Street crossing along with Bob Jachim, while Mark Knebel and John handled the outlying road crossings.
I asked Bob Jachim to remount a photo in the Mulberry Street watchman's shanty, and Bob obliged. Thanks Bob!
Apparently the GE 95ton diesel is still leaking water despite the new gaskets applied and Sparky Byers was working on a solution (photo 4).
I wandered into the West Annex of the Shop building and found out that Mike Jachim had welded a neat metal awning over the housing for the future air conditioner for C&EI tool car #A-1054 (see photo 5). Meanwhile, Joe Kingsbury was working on the inside after the last ceiling panel was put in place earlier in the day. That's Joe in the sixth photo stuffing some insulation back in the side of the car that had been removed earlier during the installation of the awning.
Apparently the old water pump for the Shop building that Bob McKown had long ago donated, gave up the ghost and a new one was secured. That's Cory Bennett and Dave Cook working on it in the 7th photo while the 8th shot shows the new pump in place.
Recently, Mark had given the wig-wag signals on the pedestrian crossing some new paint and he had to move the end of the fence to get to the signal. I decided to try to get the fence back in place and put the bricks in the sidewalk back in place. Spent all day waiting for my helper to show up, but finally Jason Ciastko and Mark gave me a hand with the fence and I then managed to get the bricks put back into, what I hope, is the correct order. Anyway, that little project is done.
Finally, the last shot shows Mike Healy holding the can of goop that Bob Albert (up on the ladder) used to patch a leak up in the cupola of IC display caboose 9914. At least Bob hopes it is now fixed!
On the way home, I noticed about 90 additional covered hoppers stored on the CKIN. This is in addition to the cars that were there recently.
Have an enjoyable holiday everyone and enjoy the upcoming week. Summer is supposedly coming back with a vengeance; supposed to be in the 90's a couple days this week!
Les
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