Greetings!
Who would have believed a 68 degree day in the middle of February? That's what we got today in North Judson! Other parts of the U.S. have been hit by horrible winter weather. But not our area of the country. And we are NOT complaining!!!!!
With this forecast, it gave me a chance to do some painting on passenger car # 899. Late last fall, I scrapped loose paint and primed the 20 windows on the south side of the car, but only got the Pullman Green finish coat on half of them before darkness stopped me and cool days thereafter prevented me from finishing the job. This morning, I found the Lift parked next to the Shop building, but couldn't get it going, which happens after a period of inactivity. Asked John DeGan if he could give me a hand and he eventually sprayed some starter fluid in the carburetor while I turned the key and it then fired right up! Rolled it over to number 899 and spent the morning doing the deed! Photo one shows the end result. Yes, the roof needs repainting; a job for this spring.
On the way rolling the Lift back to the Shop, I noticed that three of the seats that Bud Tibbie and I had been taken off of the end platforms of Grand Trunk Western transfer caboose # 75072 last fall were still laying next to the car. I grabbed John DeGan again and asked Mark Knebel if we could throw the seats into the bed of his pickup to take over to the scrap pile. Mark backed his truck up and John and I loaded them. Another job done!
Sparky Byers and Rich Warner worked on finding the oil leak on G.E. diesel number 11. There still seems to be a bit of oil getting into the water system.
Despite my grabbing John DeGan for various jobs today, John actually had started in on the cleanup of Kanawha # 2789. The second photo shows John with his wire wheel working on the rods of the 2-8-4. Already the improvement in looks is discernible.
Joe Kingsbury has continued working on C&EI tool car # A-1054. He has painted the floor and the interior end ramps as can be seen in the third shot.
Bob Albert was working again on IC display caboose # 9914 in another attempt to fix the roof leak.
In the morning, Cory Bennett, John LaOrange, Tom Rainford and David Cook moved some rail over toward the area where the track will eventually be built into the West Annex of the Shop. Eventually, the turntable lead track (which runs to the north of the Shop) will be shoved over and in the afternoon Cory and Bing Risley took mixed dirt and stone over to the area where the track will eventually be moved. Bing is shown in the fourth photo getting another load of dirt while Cory works to smooth the dirt out with the Payloader in the fifth photo. Note Corky sitting behind Bing in that 4th photo!
Doug and Loretta Kosloske manned the depot today and the nice weather brought out some visitors. Thought I would include a photo of the depot to end this report.
Enjoy the great weather! Hopefully it will last, but don't bet the bank on it!
Les
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