Day before Mom's Day at HVRM 5/13/17

 

Greetings -

Mother Nature brought us some gorgeous weather at the museum today!

Despite appearances in the first photo, David Cook is not looking for buried treasure, but checking Hoosier Valley's underground water meter.  Cory Bennett is on the phone with someone back in the depot asking them to run the water, while Bob Barcus supervises.   A suspected leak was apparently confirmed and attempts were made during the day to find it.  Not sure if they were successful or not.

Joe Baker and Brian continued the electrical work that was begun last week.  The second photo shows them at work while the third photo shows the results at the end of the day.  This is  the first light on this side of the museum.

Grand Trunk Western transfer caboose 75072 is due to be repainted but before that is done, Bob Albert tried to repair a leak in the roof of the car as shown in the 4th photo. 

Joe Kingsbury's efforts on the stairs for Hoosier Valley eating/meeting car # K-325 is shown in the fifth shot.  Coming along really well!

Last week's museum report showed Mark Knebel working on the lettering of the museum's Purdue University crane.  This past week Mark went over and did the lettering on the other side and the results are shown in the 6th photo.  Looks great!

In addition to the work on the crane last week, Mark also found time to give our 50' PRR/TTX piggyback flat car a new coat of freight car red, as shown in photo number 7. 

Nice passenger turnout today and the 12:30 p.m. train is shown pushing west out of the depot in the 8th photo with Bob Jachim providing crossing protection on the ground while Steve Henrich's (at right on the B&LE caboose platform) keeps an eye on things.  John DeGan was engineer today while Bud Tibbie and others, collected tickets.  Kevin Kennedy protected the road crossings on the way to English Lake.

I spent some time up in Grasselli Tower trying to repair a strip of wood that had fallen out of the towers ancient door.  That effort is shown in the last 3 pix.  Still have to put some wood filler in the gaps, but it will do for now.

Have a great week folks!  Still warmer weather reportedly on the way.

Les