Greetings -
Cold day at HVRM today with temps in the upper 20's, but a little bit of sunlight at times. Supposed to be getting some good snowfall starting tonight through Sunday night, then again on Tuesday and still more (with frigid temps) for next weekend! We shall see!
Santa trains continued and photo 1 shows the second train of the day getting set to stop at Arlington Street in North Judson to pick up Santa and Mrs. Claus! That's train conductor Steve Henrichs on the back platform of LIRR # 2937 and if you look closely, you might be able to see a little bit of Kevin Kennedy who was out flagging the various crossings to English Lake for the second and third trains of the day after Mark Knebel flagged for the first train. Jason Ciastko and I were "Santa's helpers" for the three trains today. By the way, please note that Bessemer & Lake Erie caboose # 1989 was NOT on the end of the train today after Jason and Mark had managed to get the old caboose stove fired up in the morning. Unfortunately, the 1989's brakes froze up and couldn't be thawed so the "little red caboose" had to stay behind today!
John DeGan was engineer for the trains today, Steve Henrichs train conductor, Bob Albert assistant train conductor and Bud Tibbie as the conductor for the 2937. Doug Kosloske and Jason assisted with passenger boarding at the North Judson depot.
Sparky Byers and Rich Warner got the new caboose horns installed on ND&W Porter diesel # 5332 today and fired the diesel up, to check both the horn and the original Porter bell. Sparky reported both worked fine. The second photo shows the new horn up on the cab roof of the old Porter.
Another section of shelving was added against the north wall on the new concrete floor of the West Annex of the Shop building. In photo 3, Dave Cook, John LaOrange, Cory Bennett and Sparky check on the installation.
Finally, Joe Kingsbury continues to work on C&EI tool car # A-1054. Both side door work can be seen in the last photo.
Have a great week everyone! Hope the snow doesn't turn out to be too bad out your way!
Les
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