Greetings -
Temps got up into mid-80's at Hoosier Valley on Saturday, with humidity increasing.
Membership/Business meeting in the morning. Big news is Mark Knebel's resignation from the Board of Directors and as museum Secretary. Mark says he has served on the Board for 28 years. He will remain as an active member. Other news is the fact that agreements have been signed between the Board, the Town of North Judson and the railroad providing freight service. The Chesapeake & Indiana (CKIN) has signed a new agreement with the Town to provide freight service for 10 years with further options. Hoosier Valley will be allowed to continue to run as far as Milepost 218, which is just beyond the Kankakee River bridge. So, our passenger runs to English Lake will continue. Greater details in an upcoming newsletter.
There were three guest engineers on Saturday morning. Bjarne Henderson was the engineer instructor, while Doug Kosloske was conductor with Steve Bulla as student conductor. These same three gentlemen handled the work for the regular English Lake trains.
Tom Travis, Loretta Kosloske and Bob Barcus were working in the depot. Tom also served as car host on the Katy open car for the 12:30 passenger run and in Bessemer & Lake Erie caboose # 1989 for the 2:00 run.
I received the new windows for Kanawha 2789 this past week from Ross Robinson of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Some "tweaks" will have to be made, but the windows appear to fit.
I managed to get the lid for the Mulberry Street shanty coal bin, painted.
Last week, we showed in the report, the work being done on the cracked rail in the switch leading to the south storage track but didn't have a photo of the finished repair. After the new rail section was put into place, Tom Rainford drove all the spikes home and the repaired track can be seen in the first photo.
Meanwhile, Mark continued his efforts on the restoration of C&NW box car # 284. The second photo shows him cleaning the old paint off one of the door and surrounding area. Mark says that the grooves and rivets on the doors quickly consume the wire brush bristles.
The heat and humidity from Saturday is supposed to continue most of the upcoming week; this last official week of summer! Stay cool! Autumn is right around the corner!
Les
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