Greetings!
Arrived at the museum at 8:15 to find much activity already going on. This was the first of our Pumpkin Train Saturdays and our GE ton GE # 11 was busy adding the two "overflow" cabooses to the normal consist. Members were pretty much involved in the operation of these trains which needed a car host for each of the cars, two folks in the depot ticket office in addition to the manning of the gift shop. I managed to get the second floor of Grasselli Tower open and then checked for my assignment which was hosting folks in Erie Lackawanna bay window caboose # C345. Tom Rainford was the car host in NKP bay window caboose # 471 while Bud Tibbie handled NKP flat car # 1946, one of our open air cars.
We were busy all day and no time to take photos, although I did manage to get a shot (shown below) of a young couple from Highland which are rather typical of the family type folks that make these trains so popular. Loretta Kosloske advised later that we had a total of 672 riders for the days three trains. Quite a day! Others who helped out today included Steve Henrichs (engineer), Bob Albert (conductor), Joe Kingsbury, Louise Kingsbury, Bob Barcus, Mark Knebel, John LaOrange, Dave Cook, Margrett Cook, Jason Ciastko, Tami Shaw, Bing Risley, Cory Bennett, Bob Jachim, Kevin Kennedy, Randall Downs, Joe Baker and Richard Warner. Probably missed mentioning a few folks but it was a long, tiring day (I didn't leave HVRM until 5:00) and right now I have to admit that I'm pretty well beat!
Next week we get a chance to do this all over again! Help is needed for various jobs. Come out and give us a hand if you possibly can. Your museum needs YOU!
Les
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