Greetings!
Late arrival at the museum today due to late family departure from home. A lot of members took this Saturday as they celebrated the Thanksgiving 2017 weekend.
Crew were switching cars around when I arrived, getting set for our Santa trains which start next Saturday. Doug Kosloske was engineer on the Alco S1 diesel today with Steve Henrichs the conductor. All 3 weekends of the trains with Santa, are sold out!
Today was not quite as warm as yesterday, but still not bad for this time of year. Temp stayed just about at 50 degrees with sunshine all day!
Loretta Kosloske is shown in photo number 1 as she tried to get the decorations out of the bag for the depot Christmas tree. Looked great after she finished up the decorating! Photo later.
The second photo shows Mark Knebel in front of the completed "Route of the 400 Streamliners" slogan which is on one side of C&NW box car # 284. Mark later worked on the other side of the car, which has been moved in to the West Annex of the Shop. That move enables Mark to use the green lift on that side of the car. He says that using ladders creates havoc on his legs and the green lift can now be used due to the concrete floor in the West Annex.
I decided to try to put some paint on a section of the C&NW 284's roof walk, that Bob Albert had cleaned up a few weeks ago. Moved a section in to the West Annex and put some of the cardboard down to shield the floor (photo 3). The end result wasn't too bad (photo 4), although it's only partially finished.
Meanwhile, Joe Kingsbury (5th photo) and Kevin Kennedy (final photo), continued cleaning the old paint and rust off of the Porter diesel.
On the way home, I stopped in the depot and Doug showed me a copy of the most recent copy of the magazine "Bus Tours". An HVRM train running through snow during one of our Santa trains of a few years ago, made the cover! FAME!
Have a great week everyone!
Les
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