Greetings -
First official day of fall yesterday, but summer isn't quite ready to throw the towel in just yet. We've had some record setting 90 degree days this past week and today wasn't any different. Got up to at least 93, and maybe even a bit higher!
The North Judson station platform was finished with work one day this past week and the finishing touches this morning. Sorry no photo. Maybe in the next report.
Not a good day to do it with all the heat, but it was discovered from the museum's water bill, that we had another leak. So, work was started to see if it could be found. First photo shows Cory Bennett on the back hoe making the first dig, while John La Orange (at left) and Tom Rainford observe. Working much of the day in the heat, the leak was apparently located. The second shot taken in the afternoon shows the digging effort involved.
Had a guest engineer in the morning. Doug Kosloske was the engineer instructor with Bob Albert the conductor and Stephen Bulla getting in additional time as student conductor. These same gentlemen handled these duties for the two regular English Lake trains. Tom Rainford and Les Beckman were car hosts. Mark Knebel handled road flagman duties for the 12:30 p.m. train while Kevin Kennedy did the honors for the 2:00 train. Bob Jachim was the flagman for Mulberry Street in town.
Bob Barcus and Loretta Kosloske were in the depot today. The Blue Jay Café furnished lunch; fried chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy and green beans. We eat good at HVRM!
Last week I painted the newly built lid on the Mulberry Street watchman's shanty coal bin and the third photo shows the results. Yes, the rest of the box must also be taken care of. A job for down the road a bit!
Mark continued working on C&NW box car # 284. No photo update on this either!
Finally, after the second run of the day and with the passenger carrying equipment stowed on the caboose track, it was time to put Kanawha # 2789 to bed. The last photo shows Stephen throwing one of the switches to line up that move.
The outlook for NEXT weekend, is for temps in the 60's! More like fall than what we had today! Have a good week folks!
Les
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