Greetings!
Great weather for late October today in North Judson for the final Saturday of Pumpkin Patch trains. All 3 trains were well filled with the overflow caboose EL # C345 being used on the first two trains.
Earlier this week, Bud Tibbie, Cory Bennett, Rich Warner and Tom Rainford went to Harvey, Illinois to pick up some donated items arranged for by Bud. The first three photos show the items after they brought to the museum and put in the West Annex of the Shop. They will be used!
Operating crew for today included Doug Kosloske at the throttle of EL S-1 Alco # 310. Student conductor Stephen Bulla was running the show although conductor Bob Albert was on hand. Various folks doing car host duties at times today including Tom Rainford, Bud Tibbie, Jim Vosberg, Kevin Kennedy, John DeGan and yours truly. Bob Jachim was the Mulberry Street flagman while Mark Knebel covered flagman duties out on the roads away from North Judson. Bing Risley flagged Main Street today. Bob Barcus was in the gift shop with Loretta Kosloske covering tickets. Loretta was also out at the pumpkin patch being ably assisted by David Cook, Cory Bennett, Tom Travis, Louise Kingsbury and John La Orange. Margrett Cook prepared lunch for the gang.
Last week we mentioned a leak in the roof of the museum's table/meeting car # K-325. John La Orange thinks he may have found the area that is leaking and the fourth photo shows him putting asphalt on the suspected spot.
The 5th shot shows Joe Baker and Brian Elkins using the man lift to do some additional electrical work.
Meanwhile, it was discovered that a few of the recent boards put into the new depot platform, did not have screws in every joist. The sixth photo shows Bob Jachim taking care of that little problem.
It was warm enough today, with temps moving into the mid to upper 70's, that a recharging of the air conditioning unit under Long Island coach # 2937 was necessary. The last photo shows Rich Warner (orange hat) and Mark Knebel doing the work after the first of the three trains had arrived back at the depot.
Todd Flanigan, John DeGan and Bjarne Henderson were here for and engineer update today. While at the museum, Todd found the stencils he had made some years ago for C&NW boxcar # 284. Great news! Mark had put the small informational lettering on the car this past week.
Next Saturday will be the Halloween Special with departure from the North Judson depot at 4:00 p.m. Central Time. With the late return to the depot, this is the only scheduled train at Hoosier Valley that operates after dark. Doug Kosloske will have the Pennsy marker lights fired up on the Bessemer & Lake Erie caboose!
Enjoy your week everyone. Our warm weather is due to end this week with some days seeing high temps in the 50's. Well, we knew is was going to happen sometime! Stay warm!
Les
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