Greetings!
It was beautiful today at North Judson after a cool, upper 60 degree day yesterday! Temps got up to the low 80's with low humidity and sunshine most of the day. Hard to beat such a day in early August!
No guest engineers this morning so we got off to a bit later start. Both trains ran with Doug Kosloske as Conductor and John DeGan as Engineer. Tom Rainford was car host and Bud Tibbie handled flagman duties at the crossings outside of town. I flagged Mulberry Street for both the 12:30 and 2:00 runs and Tom managed to snap a shot of me (photo 1) on one of the runs.
Speaking of Mulberry Street, Tom and I had started the day talking about the missing stove pipe in the crossing watchman's shanty there and Tom said we could probably pick up some stove pipe at the hardware store. So, over to Hoppe Hardware we went and Wendy Hoppe went into the back and found what we were looking for. The second photo shows Tom figuring out the puzzle using the new stove pipe along with the old stuff. We had to move the old cast iron stove a little bit, but finally got everything to fit! Then Tom says, we need to take it back apart and paint it! Really? YES! So, we did it and the third and fourth photos show Tom prying the various pieces. I took a break to go over to Grasselli and talk to some visitors about the tower, and by the time I got back, the paint had dried and Tom had pieced everything back together! Thanks Tom!
Tom Travis handled ticket sales in the depot today while Loretta Kosloske worked in the stations gift shop. Margett Cook made lunch for the members.
Joe Kingsbury was cutting grass today and later joined by Bing Risley.
Mark Knebel had recently finished painting the PC box car and lettered one end of the car, as seen in the 5th photo.
I spent the afternoon getting the Lift over to the side of the Kanawha and painted first one side of the cab, and then ran the Lift around over to the other side of the 2-8-4 and painted that cab side. The 6th shot shows the results of this effort.
While I was up on the Lift, Dave Cook was working on the batteries on EL Alco # 310 and eventually Cory Bennett brought the Payloader over and he and John tried to help David out, as can be seen in the 7th photo. That they were eventually successful can be seen by the battery sitting in the bucket of the Payloader in the eighth photo.
The new planks for the North Judson station platform arrived and the last photo shows them sitting on the trailer. Another project in the works!
So although we got a late start today, the projects continued going forward.
Have a great week!
Les
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