Greetings!
Record high temps in the southwestern U.S. and storms in the south, but with the official start of Summer this past week, we get a day with temperatures in the low 70's at the museum. An absolutely beautiful day! Kudos to Mother Nature for this gift!
Two guest engineers this morning and then two trains to English Lake. Engineer was Doug Kosloske and John DeGan the conductor, with GE # 11 on the point.
John has recently started painting Kanawha # 2789. Photo # 1 shows some of the parts that have been painted. Because of his efforts, I decided that I'd try to letter the 2-8-4's tender and to start that effort, I gave the back end a new coat of black. Photo's 2, 3 and 4 show the tender as it appeared at the start of the day, then after I had started the work, and finally in shot # 4, the final result. The paint was too wet of course, to letter the back end so that will have to wait for another day.
Speaking of lettering, the fifth photo shows our 50' TOFC flatcar after Mark Knebel had reapplied its Pennsylvania Railroad lettering and its original number, 475403, earlier this week.
Meanwhile, the Gandy Dancers spent the day spiking the new ties that had been put in on storage track number 2. Photo 6 shows this work. That's John LaOrange on the left, holding the tie up tight to the rail, while David Cook (center) taps the tie in with a short sledgehammer while Cory Bennett at right, waits with the air hammer. And then in the 7th shot, Cory is driving a spike home!
Finally, HVRM is all about education and the last shot shows Bob Jachim giving a talk about the 2789 to a varied group of visitors. Bob does a great job, and also makes a mean pot of coffee!
A lot of others at the museum today including Steve Henrichs, Joe Kingsbury (who fixed our International lawn tractor and spent a lot of the day mowing), Bob Barcus and Loretta Kosloske (who manned the depot), Bob Albert, Steve Newland, Bing Risley, Mark Knebel and others I probably missed.
Volunteers are always needed. Please consider helping out on a Saturday.
Les
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