Greetings!
Nice sunny day for mid-December at Hoosier Valley today and all three Santa trains were operated at planned capacities. John DeGan and Bjarne Henderson shared engineer duties, Steve Henrichs was the conductor with Joe Kingsbury and Bob Albert car hosting in Long Island coach # 2937. Tom Rainford handled the county road flagging duties for all three trains.
Mark Knebel continued work on the C&NW box car and finished the painting on "The Overland Route" slogan. He also patched some pin holes in the roof of C&NW # 284.
GE number 11 was on standby and the first photo shows her idling outside the museum Shop building.
Bob Jachim stated that our TTO double semaphore signal was not operating properly this morning and the signals were shut down. I checked it out a bit later and things were fine. Perhaps a bit of ice got into the mechanism and the sunny 40 degree temps warmed things up. Anyway, the signals worked properly during train operations.
Last week, the guys put the "people plate" on one end of the ND&W Porter diesel, and this week, a crew consisting of Cory Bennett, Dave Cook, Kevin Kennedy and John La Orange measured, drilled holes and then got the plate on the OTHER end of ND&W # 5332 installed (see photo number 2). This moves the Porter just a bit closer to operation.
Todays trains end the 2017 passenger season at HVRM. The 3rd photo shows Doug Kosloske offering help to detraining passengers from the last train,after its arrival back at the North Judson depot. Thanks to everyone who had a hand in the museums train operations this season. Your help was greatly appreciated. WELL DONE!
I wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Enjoy the holidays!
Les
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