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Weekend Update May 10. 2008

Happy Mothers Day to all

Saturday was a decent weather day, made a good amount of progress getting the streamliner cars powered up and lit for visitors.

Sunday not so good…..

Chilly rainy until early afternoon, then an area wide power failure for two hours took the place down for awhile.

It was kind of fun being the only spot in the museum with electricity for a while. Kitchen was open and a few folks stopped in for a “cup and a sit”.

On the work front,

RDC paint removal made forward progress. Mark Gellman just keeps scrapin’ and scrapin’ and…..

photos in the car file  http://www.irm.org/gallery/CNW9933

Streamliner cars got some of their joints weatherproofed, and some of the interior display pieces got put out.

Cleaning will be a perpetual process for a while, until we get caught up and full power restored.

While we are on internal power, we do not have enough electricity for AC so as a purely selfish reason we hope for cool temperatures for a while.

After two years of dependable service one of our generators is getting a bit fussy, so will have to do some maintenance next week.

Mike got the second DLW coach tested and it failed, so after attempting repairs, he pulled the brake valve from the icky baaaad DLW coach, and it failed too.So no added coaches this week.

Pete did get the CRIP coaches in position so Mike can go on them next weekend, add one for Memorial Day at least we hope….

Roger and Bob Hunter were out and both made progress on the Dover.

Wayne got the main signpost in front of Barn 3 installed between tracks 2 and 3 so we can do a nice display for guests.

Shelly keeps finding things to clean in Galt House. she also brought in the mirrors we need to replace so we hope to get them hung soon.

Mark Hoffman was a “tailhoser” Saturday, so spent Sunday getting the BLE 25 window re installed. Almost done. We have an ulterior motive as we need to assemble a Pullman train for a special event in late July

 As always, if anyone is interested in work on a particular piece of equipment, they are always welcome to

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help or

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and we will appreciate it greatly.