Greetings -
Cool, sunny day at North Judson. Greeted by the first of two Guest Engineer trains. John DeGan was engineer with Bjarne Henderson as conductor. Doug Kosloske was the road crossing flagman for all of the guest engineer trains and the two regularly run trains.
Mark Knebel continued to work on Nickel Plate Road baggage car # 344 and is seen in the first photo continuing to remove rust and old paint from the car. Evidence of his work giving the car a coat of primer earlier in the week, can also be seen.
Told Bob Jachim that the Rose of Sharon bush in the west telephone pole "garden area" in the parking lot near the depot, had expired and Bob said that it would be okay to remove. Bud Tibbie and I went over to the Shop area and got one of Mark's chainsaws, walked back over and Bud cut the large, dead bush down and removed it to the back of Bob's pickup to take over to the burn pile.
Now that the brake cylinders on the rear end of Interlake Steel G.E. diesel number 11 are now working, the Shop crew started in on the units front brakes. In the second photo, John La Orange shown at left, Tom Rainford (under the unit) and Dave Cook are shown. Later, John and Dave are shown sliding a part in to Tom for reinstallation (photo # 3).
The entry from the Pullman Troop Sleeper into Metra "Highliner" commuter car # 1529 has been impassible lately and Bud Tibbie and I decided to try to find out the problem. John LaOrange stated that the rear door of 1529 might not be locked but is just extremely hard to pull open. I found a LARGE screwdriver and managed to get the blade wedged in between the door and the jam and was able to slide open the door. Bud then figured out how to use a bungee cord to keep the door of the 1529 from sliding closed. Visitors will now once again be able to walk through double deck # 1529 to see how Chicago area commuters were transported from the Chicago's south suburbs to and from downtown Chicago.
Kevin Kennedy worked on removing old yellow paint from Notre Dame and Western diesel # 5332 as seen in the fourth photo.
Bob Albert's display information for items donated to HVRM by the Lake Shore Model Railroad Club in Chicago are shown in photos 5 through 8.
Charlene Gyurko provided lunch today while Bob Barcus and Loretta Kosloske worked in the depot.
Alco # 310 was the motive power today while G.E. number 11 is still being worked on. In addition to engineer DeGan, conductor Henderson and road flagman Kosloske, Bob Jachim and Kevin Kennedy shared flagman duties at Mulberrry Street while Bud Tibbie and and Bob Gyurko were attendants on the two regularly scheduled passenger runs.
Our signal "guru" Matt Lasayko was down at the museum and he and helper Josh worked on various items including checking the flashers at both the Sycamore Street and Main Street crossings, signal light bulb replacements and various other things. The 9th shot shows Matt working on the box west of the depot.
Finally, we show Mark putting primer on one of the baggage door sills on NKP 344.
Moderate temps in the 70's and low 80's scheduled for this upcoming first week of June. Sounds good! Have a great week everyone.
Les
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