Greetings!
We had a little rain, some snow showers, a peak or two at the sun and cold temps all day today at Hoosier Valley.
A bunch of the guys did a number of tasks as they tried to find and repair the leak in HVRM table/meeting car # K-325.
With the weather turning colder, Mark Knebel has put a hold on the lettering of Chicago and North Western PS-1 box car # 284. While the weather was still good, he managed to get the informational data put on the car (photo 1). Eventually, he wants the car put into the West Annex of the Shop building, which is heated. Right now, the Porter Notre Dame & Western diesel occupies part of the track space back there. Hopefully, some shuffling will eventually be done and C&NW 284 will get switched in.
As part of that project, the roof walk will have to be put back on. The second photo shows Bob Albert doing some clean up work on those parts. Earlier in the morning, Rich Warner had welded a section of one of the roof walk ends back together as it had somehow broken off. This roof walk job will be done after C&NW 284 is put into the Shop.
Rich and Joe Kingsbury were in the West Annex working on the Porter diesel and the 3rd photo shows Rich removing some rusted steel from the cab. After lunch, Tom Rainford came over and helped Rich and Joe out and the 4th shot shows Tom doing some of that clean up work.
Speaking of lunch, Margrett Cook provided meat loaf, potatoes and corn for lunch today.
Bob Barcus worked in the gift shop while Loretta Kosloske handled tickets. Today was the day for the Not-So-Scary/Scary animal show, with train departure at 4:00 p.m. Loretta also rode the train out to the museum spot where the show was held. Erie Lackawanna Alco # 310 was motive power today, but GE # 11 was fired up and stood by as back up power. Doug Kosloske was engineer for this twilight train, with Bjarne Henderson as conductor. Steve Henrichs was engineer for number 11 with John LaOrange as fireman. There was some problem with the oil pressure on the GE, but eventually John and Rich were able to find the problem.
I spent the day working on trying to get the three frames into one of the windows of Kanawha # 2789. It took me much of the day to get the grooved steel window track removed but I finally was able to get it done. Had some other problems but eventually managed to get the three frames into the engineers window. The fifth photo shows the frames in place but much still needs to be done including grinding the original upper window track to removed some of the roughness so that the frames will slide better. After that is done, then the frames will need to be removed again so that glass can be inserted into the currently empty places. Now that the 2789 stays inside on Saturdays, this project can get going again.
Finally, as I was getting set to head for home after the train had left, I happened to walk past the Porter diesel. I had mentioned in previous museum reports, that Joe had needle scaled one side of the cab, and I noticed that this old paint removal has exposed the USA that had been painted over after Notre Dame purchased the unit as U.S. Army surplus. The sixth photo shows that USA lettering. Can you see it?
There will be no train operations now until December and the Santa Trains, except for miscellaneous switching. Supposed to be cool next week with high temps in the 40's and 50's, all below average. Try to stay warm, and have a great week!
Les
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