Greetings!
Had a nice day last Tuesday (November 29th) with temps getting up into the mid-50's. Decided to try to take advantage and head to the museum and work a bit on the 899. Was greeted by the new concrete floor which had been poured the previous day over track 3 in the West Annex of the Shop (see photo 1). Smooooth, to say the least! But I knew this pristine condition wouldn't last long (see below).
Today was the first day for our Santa trains and December greeted us with more typical weather with temps not getting above the upper 30's and clouds all day! I was elected to give Santa a hand before train departures from North Judson and was assisted on these three trains for the day by both Tom Rainford and Tom Travis. While we were waiting for the first departure, Tom Rainford and I took off the glass covers over the N gauge model railroad of North Judson to rerail some freight cars that had tipped over and some others that were derailed. That's done....until the next time!
A fellow from the Orange Empire Railway Museum apparently visited the museum this past summer and noted that we had a temporary metal plate over the wiring at the bottom of our "Right Turn Only" warning signal (photo 2). The temporary plate in question is at the bottom of the signal and a close up is shown in the third photo. The guy from O.E.R.M. said that he had the correct US&S plate for this part of the signal and last month, Mark Knebel received the plate. I went over to the Shop and eventually found the correct size bolt for the top of the plate and after a bit of a struggle, managed to put it in place. The 4th photo shows the correct plate installed! Thank you for this great donation Mr. Palmieri! BTW, when the weather warms back up a bit, I'll put a bit of black paint on the bolt head.
The three Santa trains today had the following crews:
Engineer all 3 trains: Bjarne Henderson
Train conductor: Doug Kosloske (trains 1 and 3); Steve Henrichs (train 2)
LIRR coach # 2937 conductor all 3 trains: Bud Tibbie
Assistant to 2937 conductor: Steve Henrichs (trains 1 and 3); Tom Rainford (train 2)
In the North Judson depot today were Bob Barcus, Loretta Kosloske and Tami Shaw.
Flagmen for the day included Mark Knebel (for county road crossings) and Bob Jachim, Tom Travis and Les Beckman (at Mulberry Steet).
Others assisted with the trains or in work .
Meanwhile Rich Warner, Sparky Byers and Jason Ciastko worked on ND&W Porter # 5332.
John LaOrange got GE diesel # 11 up and running. John also worked on the putting up the first of the recently donated storage racks on the northwest corner of the new concrete pad section in the West Annex (photo 5). That's Tom Travis watching. A closer up view is shown in the sixth photo. Some equipment has also been put back into this section.
The seventh photo shows one of the two new end doors recently installed in C&EI tool car # A1054 by Joe Kingsbury.
Others assisted with the trains today or in various work around the museum. Including Cory Bennett, Dave Cook, Margrett Cook, Louise Kingsbury, Joe Baker and others. Margrett prepared a very nice chicken soup today for lunch and Louise furnished desert.
Have a good week everyone. Supposed to get colder toward the end of next week. Well, I guess it IS the winter season after all!
Les
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