Greetings!
Board meeting at Hoosier Valley this morning with a number of guests also in attendance. Warm day with temps getting well into the 80's with sunshine most of the day.
A crew went out after the Board meeting to clean up a couple of downed trees at the picnic/trail area just off of State Route 10/39. Crew consisted of Dave Cook, John La Orange,
Cory Bennett, Tom Rainford, and perhaps others.
Heard that there was a problem with one end of the center roof flashing on Grasselli Tower. Obviously the report was accurate as can be seen in the first photo. Apparently, the wind from a storm that passed through earlier in the week, got under the edging and the old nails failed. The tower was constructed in 1904 and failure of the nails could be expected after all of this time. It was decided to address the problem later in the day. Meanwhile, I opened the tower and there was no indication that the roof was leaking; at least not yet!
You will recall that late last Saturday, Bing Risley dropped a bucket load of crushed stone at the concrete pad next to the lower door to Grasselli. The second photo shows that stone pile. I hiked down to the Shop and found a suitable shovel and proceeded to spread the stone around the step, as can be seen in the 3rd shot. Yes, not a neat job, but should be satisfactory!
Took the shovel back to the Shop and found Bob Jachim (in the orange vest in the 4th pix) giving one of his talks on Kanawha # 2789 to three museum visitors.
During the past week, Mark Kneble had worked on the lettering on one side of Nickel Plate Road baggage car # 344 as can be seen in the 5th photo. Mark had to work his U.S.P.S. rural mail route, so wasn't at the museum today.
Bob Barcus and Loretta Kosloske manned the depot.
Charlene Gyurko provided a yummy lunch for the members today. Meatballs with mushroom gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, green Jello salad and to top it off, one of her sisters fabulous chocolate cakes! A visitor accompanied Charlene and Bob to HVRM today; their pooch "Chatter". So well behaved....the pooch that is!
Good passenger count for the two trains today; apparently numbering in the 80's. Crew consisted of Bjarne Henderson, John DeGan, Bob Gyurko, Doug Kosloske and Tom Travis. New member Mike Jones rode along. Bud Tibbie handled most of the road flagman duties, although Bob Jachim, Bob Albert and myself, pinch hit at times.
John La Orange managed to get some gas into the riding lawn mower and cut quite a bit of grass today.
Joe Kingsbury worked on the Porter diesel in the Shop.
In the afternoon, the flashing at the peak of Grasselli's roof was tackled. Using the man lift, Dave and Cory raised the platform, then put an extension ladder from the deck onto the roof over the tiled roof shingles. Cory is shown in the sixth photo moving the flashing back into place and in the 7th photo, screwing the flashing back down while Dave keeps the ladder steady. This repair should hold for a while.
Have a great week everyone.
Les
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