Greetings!
Mother Nature toyed with us this past week; giving us a number of WAY above average temps and enabling the 3rd warmest February to be entered into the record books. But she slapped us down today with temps in the upper 20's and a brisk wind dropping the wind chill down to the teens. Well....we knew it was going to happen!
The cold kept museum participation way today, but still, a number of things still got done.
An old out of service welder was cut up for the scrap pile.
John LaOrange fired up G.E. # 11 and found it worked very well. This is after the guys were able to stop the oil leakage. Good news!
Margrett Cook provided a hot lunch in the NKP kitchen car.
One of the problems we had with Alco S-1 # 310 last season was a stack fire The first photo shows the removed stack and the results of the fire are obvious. By the way, the stack is shown upside down. The second photo shows the hood of the Alco and the results of the fire. Fortunately, there was no other damage to the old girl. A new stack is going to be fabricated and the third shot shows Dave Cook (at left) and Cory Bennett preparing to drill some holes in the newly made gasket.
John was busy renewing our inside wood pile for the furnace in the West Annex of the Shop. I gave him just a little help and the filled wood box is shown in the 4th photo. Temps in the West Annex were up in the low 50's today.
Last week, John DeGan was shown starting the work of cleaning up the running gear of our Alco built Kanawha, 2-8-4 # 2789. During her last shopping, The Chesapeake & Ohio used rods off of other 2-8-4's and a couple of those are shown in the next two photos. Number 2754 supplied one of her side rods for the right side as shown In photo 5 and the left eccentric rod is shown in the sixth shot as coming from sister 2-8-4 number 2745. Although both the 2745 and 2754 were built by Lima, the interchangeability of parts for the 90 K4 class locomotives is obvious from these two photos. There are parts from other K4's as we will probably discover in the continuing cosmetic clean up of the "Big Mike".
Finally, in the last shot, Bob Albert is shown doing some work on the memorial plaque that hangs in the museums depot building. Bob is in charge of the displays in the museum.
Due to the cold, an early quit was the story of the day. Keep warm folks. March (and the official start of Spring) is now just days away!
Les
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