On Saturday, September 2, a small crew braved near record heat and humidity to do a bit of work at the Museum. Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin and Paul Brown replaced a tie in our main running track. As you can see in the accompanying pictures, we use our ties until they just about turn into toothpicks! It’s always satisfying when we can remove a totally rotted tie and replace it with a solid piece of wood! After this little bit of work was complete, we needed to retreat to the indoors to eat lunch and cool down.

After lunch, we started to work on removing a flat rear tire from our work truck, but we couldn’t remove the lug nuts with the equipment available. So we finished the day by removing a dead tree that conveniently fell over into the back of one of our pick-up trucks! It was a simple matter of driving the truck out to the dumpster and breaking it down with the Bobcat.

The crew left a bit early knowing that we had finished just a small portion of the many projects we have at the Museum.

– Paul