Greetings to all,
Was very hot an humid on Saturday around North Judson. I sold tickets out of the ticket bay in the
depot standing in for Loretta again. Large crowd on the 12:30 train, but only 7 on the 2pm train.
The depot was nicely air conditioned an people just came in to rest in the coolness. I want to thank
Les Beckman for taking time for the pictures around the museum. Again lots has been accomplished
during the week an Saturday. Les was nice enough to caption every picture with a short line about
what is being done.
Robert Barcus manned the gift shop an then flagged road crossing for the first train run. Margret served
up lunch in a hot kitchen car. The kitchen car was moved over to the caboose track so the tie tamper
an the air compressor could do tamping on new laid down stone ballast an wood ties. The kitchen car
an newly renovated dining car were pushed back to end of the track for the final time. An electrical
cord was used for the fridge. Joe Baker will connect up all the electrical next weekend to both cars.
The tie tamper machine developed an oil leak an had to be taken out of service an back to the shop
for repair. But most of the storage track has been tamped, so after the machine is fixed, the rest
of the tamping will be completed.
The EL 310 train crew, engineer Bjarne Henderson, Conductor John DeGan. Car hosts Bud Tibbey . Bob Albert
was active on projects during the day. Standby engine 11 engineer, John LaOrange, conductor Mark
Knebel.
Les captioned the pictures for me already.
1. Problems with air ballast gun at end of Storage Track number 2 as John La Orange, Mark Knebel and David Cook work on the problem.
2. New gasket fixed problem and John and Mark after the repair was successfully made!
3. Train with Second Guest Engineer of day gets set to push back across Mulberry Street where Bob Jachim is flagging the crossing.
4. Mark has been repainting Pennsylvania Railroad 50' box car # 607627 during the week.
5. Effort to get Union Pacific tamper running was finally successful.
6. Close up of the Tamper in action with Cory Bennett at the controls.
7. Tom Travis manned the ticket window in the depot today and between the two passenger runs, managed to grab a lunch prepared by Margrett Cook and bring it back to the depot.
8. After the arrival of the first train back into North Judson, the Tamper started leaking oil and it was decided to take it in to the Shop. This necessitated some maneuvering. The passenger train pushed back to clear the main (at left) after which the Tamper headed for the Shop. John then got set to move blue Interlake diesel # 11 east so that NKP kitchen car #X58538 and Hoosier Valley table/meeting car #K-325 could be switched onto Storage Track number 2. After 11 got into the clear, the passenger train headed back to the depot to load passengers for the second run of the day to English Lake. BTW, Bjarne Henderson was engineer, John DeGan conductor and Bud Tibbie was car host for these runs. Bob Barcus handled flagging at the various road crossings west of the museum. The 2pm train left at 2:07pm.
Les had a visitor from out east, David Conrad, who stopped on his way to Union IL. David is a staff
member on the Valley Line in CT.
Les pretty well said it all.
Hope everyone has a good week, drive safe.
Tom Travis
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