Greetings -
After a day in the 70's on Friday, temps got up to 81 degrees at the museum today. Still low humidity, so not a bad day for grunt work!
Spent all day working on replacing two of the arch windows in passenger coach # 899. First photo shows the interior of the first window after preparing the opening for the new window. The new windows were built by Ross Robinson of Ottawa, Ontario (Canada). Have had these replacements for a while but found out that they were a little bit too wide for the window opening. Over to the Shop to run them through the table saw. The surgery was successful! The second photo shows the window installed while the third shot shows this same window as seen from the outside of the car.
Although I spent the day on the 899's arch windows, I did manage to get a few other shots.
Bjarne, Paul and Lars Henderson spent the day polishing up Pullman Troop Sleeper # 7256. The 4th photo shows Paul power washing dust and grime off of the car before the elbow grease was started. The 5th shot shows Bjarne starting in on the cleaning while in the 6th shot, Bjarne, Paul and Lars (from left to right) proudly pose before the now pristine car.
Mark Knebel worked on the exterior of Nickel Plate Road baggage car # 344 this week and the seventh photo shows his work to date. Only the other end of the car needs to be finished as about 2/3rds remains to be given its coat of Pullman Green paint.
Bob Barcus manned the depot gift shop today with Loretta Kosloske the ticket agent. Charlene Gyurko provided Bratwurst for lunch. I noticed that Steve Henrichs was the engineer for the day while Doug Kosloske was the conductor. The 8th photo shows the detraining of the passengers after the 12:30 p.m. trains arrival back at the North Judson depot. That's Bob Gyurko on the left in the yellow shirt with conductor Kosloske on the right.
In the afternoon, when I went to trim the second arch window for number 899, I noticed that the track gang was hard at work on the track going in to the west side of the West Shop Annex and I got the 9th photo. shot . That's Dave Cook at left, with Tom Rainford and Mark in the white shirt in the foreground. Cory Bennett is partially hidden behind Tom.
The second arch window was successfully installed in 899 in the afternoon.
Hope everyone has a great week. Temps are supposed to go back up into the 90's so, stay cool!
Les
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