Greetings _
After a nasty Friday when a cold front moved through the area knocking temps down and bringing rain, Saturday dawned cold but sunny! The wicked wind didn't keep visitors away from the museum and all three Pumpkin Trains were well attended. Engineer Doug Kosloske was at the throttle of GE number 11 while Bob Barcus handled conductor duties. There was a slight glitch in tickets before the first train, but Loretta Kosloske kept ticket things going well in the depot. Since riding in the open car might have been uncomfortable to certain folks, those with open car tickets were given the option of riding in Erie Lackawanna caboose #C345. No one took up that option for the 10:00 a.m. train, but 6 riders rode in the bay window car on the 12:30 train and 9 people on the 2:30 train. Tom Travis and I were ticket collectors on the EL caboose for the day. Riding in the enclosed caboose is a good option to offer customers.
Since our trains run with the diesel pushing for half of our runs, a road crossing flagman is required. The photo shows Mark Knebel at the Arlington Street crossing today. That's conductor Barcus's hand holding his train radio at the left. John DeGan also did some flagman duties during the day. Joe Kingsbury and Bob Gyurko were some of those who also helped out on the train.
The Pumpkin trains use up most volunteers for one job or another, but Tom Rainford stated that some work was done on the wood stove over in the West Annex of the Shop building. Not sure if repairs were successful or not but the stove keeps us warm during cold weather, so will undoubtedly get fixed.
Have a good week everyone and enjoy our Fall weather!
Les
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