Greetings!
Temps nudged just above 90 degrees today in North Judson. We had a couple of guest engineers and then ran both trains using Alco S1 # 310. Engineer today was Doug Kosloske with Steve Henrichs as conductor. A couple of folks collected tickets and acted a car hosts including Bud Tibbie and Tom Rainford. Probably others I missed. The first photo shows Joe Kingsbury working on the air conditioning on Long Island passenger car # 2937 prior to the first departure.
Mark Knebel had finished painting GTW transfer caboose # 75072 earlier this week as shown in the second shot. He says he still must touch up the lettering.
Walked over to the shop and found that Joe is nearing completion on the steps for Hoosier Valley table/meeting car # K-325. See the 3rd photo.
The track crew continued pulling out old rotten ties on the number 2 storage track. The new ties are due in sometime next week for this track and then we'll have to start in on the tie replacement.
The eventual plans seem to be to get new siding for Grasselli Tower, but the Board hasn't yet decided exactly which way to go. In the meantime, the tower is starting to look really shabby. So I got a can of latex primer and moved the Manlift over and started to try to get a little primer, and eventually some paint, to make the tower look a bit more presentable until a change is made. The fourth photo shows the tower and the very bad window sill and boards under the second floor windows on the southeast corner of the building. And the fifth photo shows the results of my work for the day. A little bit of an improvement at least. Fortunately, the windows on the second floor of this south side are all good, and we will just have to replace the sills and side boards.
Temps again tomorrow supposed to be near 90, but more normal 70 degree days are forecast for the coming week. Enjoy the beginnings of meteorological summer everyone!
Les
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