Greetings!
Mark Knebel continued painting the exterior of Grasselli Tower today. The first photo is a rather unique view of Mark working on the window trim on the first floor windows. I spent the day giving some talks to visitors up in Grasselli, and in between visitors, working on scraping loose paint and putting primer on the Mulberry Street watchman's road shanty. Also flagged Mulberry for the two scheduled trains.
Speaking of scraping, a visitor who was recently at Hoosier Valley talked to Tom Travis about donating some railroad items to the museum. Tom travelled down to the guys home in Kokomo and brought back some signals and some track jacks. Also at the guys house was a scraper that was pulled by a horse, and later a tractor. It was too big for Tom to bring home so Cory Bennett and John LaOrange eventually went down to Kokomo and picked it up (see photo 2).
Cory and John, along with Dave Cook and Tom Rainford, spiked some of the ties that they recently moved to the Route 10 rest stop where the museum has its Easter Egg Hunt and Pumpkin trains.
Joe Baker and Bob Gyurko were checking some electrical stuff in the original part of the Shop building.
Jon Oram was doing some clean up work on the N gauge display layout and also donated some items to the museum, including a neat Pennsylvania Railroad advertisement.
Joe Kingsbury was working on ND&W 5332 in the Shop's West Annex.
Not sure of the ridership count, but both trains did have riders. Bob Albert was conductor, Kevin Kennedy student conductor, Doug Kosloske engineer, Bob Gyurko car host/P.A, announcer and Shad Vargo handled road flagman duties.
Have a great week everyone!
Les
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