Greetings All!
Two days after Thanksgiving 2016 and the turkey and trimmings weren't enough to keep museum members from doing a good days work at the museum today. The nice weather (40's) and even an occasional peak at the sun certainly didn't hurt matters!
Accomplishments included:
1. Bob Barcus doing some work on the security cameras in the Shop.
2. Loretta Kosloske putting Christmas decorations in the depot and around the area. Loretta reported that the first two Santa Train days (12/3 and 12/10) are completely sold out!
3. Bud Tibbie and yours truly got all but one of the seats off of the two platforms of Grand Trunk Western transfer caboose # 75072.
4. Joe Kingsbury continued working on C&EI tool car # A-1054. The first photo shows Tom Travis peeking in the hung door on one side of the car while the second photo shows Joe a bit later doing some grinding work.
5. The museum decided to contract out the pouring of the balance of the concrete for track number 3 in the West Annex of the Shop. The third photo shows Cory Bennett welding the flangeway iron on the track while his helper Tom Rainford watches the efforts. This welding job was completed by the end of the day after which the concrete area next to the track was cleaned up for the upcoming pour which could occur this week!
6. Bob Albert continued work in Illinois Central display caboose # 9914. This car is rapidly filling up!
7. There were some problems getting the Union Pacific tamper running and the 4th photo shows John La Orange giving Rich Warner (he of the bald head under the machine) as they tried to determine the problem. Eventually, they got the tamper running and had it on the line to clear shop track space.
8. I talked Tom Travis into giving me a hand in moving a number of the levers in Grasselli Tower back into place. Certain levers if pulled forward, cannot be pushed back into place without going down to the lower floor and manipulating their movement. Tom "jiggled" the levers up on the second floor so that I could locate them beneath the lever bed and then move the apparatus enough so that Tom could then push the levers back into place. Mission accomplished!
9. Toward the end of the day, Rich did some grinding on the cab roof of Notre Dame & Western diesel # 5332 and then drilled holes in the new base (fifth photo) for what will eventually hold a new set of horns for the Porter.
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
Les
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