Greetings -
Sunny December day with temps in the mid-50's! Great weather for the first day of Santa trains!
Alco 310 was the power for all 3 sold-out trains today. Engineer was Steve Henrichs, conductor Doug Kosloske, student conductor Stephen Bulla, car host for two trains was Bud Tibbie and for the other train was Loretta Kosloske. Mark Knebel did the morning track inspection using the motor car (photo 1) and then flagged the country road crossings for all 3 trains (Steve Henrichs is also in the photo as he had just thrown the Shop switch so that Mark could put the motor car away for the day). I helped Santa a little bit and also provided Mulberry Street flagman protection, as did Bob Jachim and Bob Albert.
Loretta's decorated Christmas tree in the depot is shown in the second photo. Loretta and Bob Barcus handled depot duties today.
Mark continued to work on the lettering on the C&NW box car this week.
We also received a truck load of composite ties earlier this week, as seen in the 3rd photo.
A few extra members would be welcome the next two Saturdays to handle the Santa trains. If you can make it, your help would be greatly appreciated.
Have a great week! Enjoy the unseasonable warm weather while it lasts!
Les
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