Greetings -
Wicked March snowstorm roared into the Midwest but a very strong east wind kept all of it to the south and west of Hoosier Valley. That was the good news. The bad news is that the cold temps and the howling wind made things pretty miserable being outside at the museum today.
Despite the weather, things did still manage to get done today. Tom Rainford reported that a cracked joint bar and resulting track gap got repaired in the morning.
And a train crew including John Degan, Steve Henrichs and Doug Kosloske, used Alco # 310 to switch out equipment to make up the train for the East Egg Hunt scheduled for next Saturday. In the photos below, the crew is bringing out the backup cars from Track 3 next to the Shop. That's Bob Jachim flagging the Mulberry Street crossing in the second shot while Conductor Steve Henrichs is shown riding a caboose in the last photo as the train moves east past the North Judson depot.
Good to see member Tom Travis at the museum today. Tom, wife Maureen and daughter Brianne, stopped by and then planned on lunching at the Blue Jay later.
Visitor Kevin Norman visited and looked over the museum. Kevin has made arrangements to record our S-1 Alco and our Purdue crane. These recordings will be for model railroaders as sound on their models of the prototypes.
Bob Albert was putting up some prototype photos in both the depot and in our Illinois Central display caboose, IC number 9914.
Hopefully, this storm that just slipped by to our south, will be this winters last hurrah. It is officially Spring after all!
Have a great week everyone!
Les
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