Greetings -
We've been on the proverbial "yo-yo" this week with weather. Days where the temps were in the 70's turning suddenly into the 50's. Today temps in the 40's jumping up to around 60 only to fall off again in the afternoon. And a light misty rain pretty much all day.
Board meeting today highlighted by Sarah Origer's presentation of the 2018 distribution check for HVRM's Endowment Fund of $2,931.00. Also an interesting discussion thereafter concerning the efforts by the museum to work on a 5 year plan. Amongst other discussions was the Board's decision not to bring an 0-4-0T to North Judson to celebrate the museums 30 year anniversary.
Meanwhile, Tom Rainford and Mark Knebel continued working on the cleanup of the area between the old tracks of the Erie Railroad wye. The rain prevented any burning today.
Bob Gyurko started working on a new sound system for Long Island coach # 2937. That's Bob in photo 1, preparing to begin the effort. Didn't get down there later to get some better photos and see how he fared.
EL Alco # 310 went down to the interchange track to pull out a couple of the museums freight cars that were stored there. After shoving them into the north storage track in the yard, the Alco is shown heading west toward the Shop with the Pennsylvania Railroad position light signal indicating a clear track (photo 2). The signal for the next block is the New York Central signal shown in the 3rd shot.
Pulled pork sandwiches and potato salad were prepared by Charlene Gyurko for lunch. Cookies for desert. YUM!
In the afternoon, a work train was made up to trim some of the trees that were to close to the right-of-way between the museum and the Kankakee River bridge. Train consisted of # 310, the Nickel Plate open car (NKP # 1946), EL caboose # C345 and NKP caboose # 471. John DeGan was engineer and John LaOrange conductor. Riding on NKP 1946 were (from left in photo 4) were Cory Bennett, Joe Kingsbury and Kevin Kennedy. Also on the open car were conductor LaOrange and Tom Rainford.
Meanwhile, Mark Knebel and I rode in EL # C345 and detrained in spots where cut branches needed to be removed. That's Mark on the ground in the 5th photo and myself in photo # 6.
The seventh photo shows the cutting being done as seen from the ground. Meanwhile, John DeGan started and stopped the Alco as directed, innumerable times. That's John in the 8th shot keeping an eye on the progress of the work.
As we neared the Kankakee River bridge, the growth alongside the track was heavy and Tom Rainford assisted with branch removal on the ground, while Kevin Kennedy later brought the saw down to make cutting a bit easier. The 9th shot shows cutting from the open car, Kevin is shown trimming branches in the 10th picture while Tom is working in the 11th photo, trying to remove some of the cuttings.
We finally finished the work and headed back to the museum. The last shot shows John pushing the work train back toward track 3 next to the shop. A good day! Tiring, but good.
Thanks to Tom Rainford for the 4th, 6th and 9th photos for this museum report.
Enjoy the upcoming week everyone!
Les
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