On Saturday, January 25, volunteers Dwight Maxey, John McDowell, Chris Pollard, Ben Pollard, Gary Carter, Dannis Hudson, Henry Falko, Nick Walker and Paul Brown braved very cold temperatures – and more than the predicted “trace” of snow – to do the work required to return the truck back under our Haunted Railcar. Using the pneumatic jacks we have, of course requires compressed air, and as usual, our compressor was very cold, requiring a jump start, and some finessing to get started. Once the compressor warmed up, it was a simple matter to raise the jacks, and roll the truck under the car.

While you would think that rail cars having very large parts wouldn’t need to be adjusted by fractions of an inch to be assembled, our job required just that! For some reason, the bolster was just a bit off center, and required some frustrating work to finally get lined up. And remember, it was very cold and frustration makes it even colder! Persistence paid off in the end though, and we were able to finish the reassembly work and put the tools away before running to the break room to thaw out!!

Many thanks to our volunteers today for sticking with it and completing the job.

I have included a few pictures here to hopefully give you an idea of the work done.

– Paul