On Saturday, October 28, the Museum hosted our Halloween event, which attracted 66 caboose riders and 25 locomotive riders, and some smaller goblins who got to ride for free! Thanks to volunteers Ron Roach, Maureen King in the ticket office, John McDowell for creating another spooky and Haunted Railcar, and Dwight Maxey, Justin Cesar, Colin Mellin, Reid Adams, Tyler Seeley, Dannis Hudson, Bryan Tong, and Paul Brown, for getting the train set ready for operation, and keeping it on the rails for the event. All the folks riding the train were smiling, and there were a lot of people seen leaving the Haunted Railcar screaming!!

Earlier in the day, the crew was at the shop getting last minute work completed on the caboose set for power, and wrapping up the battery swap in Engine 104. Unfortunately, we could not get Engine 104 started in time, so our “Pumpkin” locomotive had to be left behind, while The Patriot, Engine 102 stepped in to keep everything moving. This work made for a long day that stretched a full 12 hours for many. It is fun though and most of the volunteers were happy to be doing something they love to do…play with BIG trains!

I have included a few pictures of the work done early in the day, and a rare photo of Engines 102 and 104 coupled together, as we had to move 104 out to another track to get it out of our way.

– Paul