Nasty weather at HVRM 2/3/18

 

Greetings -

Had a nasty cold last week so wasn't at Hoosier Valley on 1/27, but have ridden it out so was at the museum today.  Speaking of nasty, the weather was like that today.  A bit warmer than Friday, but the very strong winds made it feel COLD!

Saw Loretta Kosloske in the depot and she advised me that Steve Henrichs had been at HVRM on the 27th and worked up in Grasselli Tower.  I went up there and found out what Mr. Henrichs had been up to!  The first two shots show the trim added to various window frames.  Obviously Steve had pre-painted a few of these, but not all of them.   This window trim had originally not been completed so that the weights for the window sashes could be "tweaked".  Since the windows all seem to work okay, the trim needed to be finished.  Well done Steve!

Meanwhile, Bob Barcus was running off labels for the upcoming mailing of the newsletter.  After the labels came through the labeler and spilled all over the floor, Bob had to wrap them up into a roll so that Joe & Louise Kingsbury could send the newsletter out.  The third photo shows Bob at work.  Note the labels still on the floor waiting to be rolled up!  I think Bob said there was about 250 of these labels.  Another great job by Mr. Barcus!!!!

Walked back over to the Shop and found Bob Albert outside, grinding away on one of the windows of Nickel Plate Road bay window caboose # 471 (4th photo).  Bob has been doing the cars various windows as the museum prepares to eventually repaint the car some time this spring.  The wicked wind didn't make Bob's job any easier today!

Inside the heated West Annex of the Shop, found that Mark Knebel had painted the two roof walk hand grabs for Chicago and North Western boxcar # 284.  The results of one of those is shown in the fifth photo.

Finally, work continues on Notre Dame & Western diesel # 5332.  Cory Bennett worked on the units windows earlier in the day and in the last photo, John DeGan is shown scrapping rust off of the inside of the Porter's cab while Joe can be seen in the background getting ready to vacuum up some paint chips.  I actually grabbed a screwdriver and removed some rust myself until the announcement came that the cold weather was going to end up causing an early quit for the day.  Never complain about an early quit!!!

Snow due in this weekend for the northwestern corner of Indiana.  We are running a bit of a snow deficit this year, but supposed to be made up in the next week.  We shall see.  Have a great week everyone!

Les