On Saturday, September 23, Colin Mellin, Justin Cesar, John McDowell and Paul Brown did a little reshuffling of equipment to get things ready for next month’s Halloween event and other fall events. After getting engine 104 running after the summer off, the crew coupled up to the Haunted Railcar, and moved it out of the shop area over to the depot tracks. John McDowell, the creator of the Haunted Railcar, will be working to get this year’s frightening experience tuned up just right. After the car was in place, the crew rearranged the cabooses to line up following engine 104. This required using the Trackmobile to make the “run around” move. We then parked the equipment and took a lunch break.

After lunch, Colin, Justin and Paul headed out to make some repairs to one of the switches on the track leading into the shop. They did a bit of work to secure the points better when the switch is thrown. The crew tied up and headed home after a very nice first day of Fall.

I have included a few pictures of the equipment switching moves we made.

– Paul