On Saturday, February 22, volunteers Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Chris Pollard, Ben Pollard, Bruce Davis and Paul Brown got some work done at the Museum. Dwight and Chris jumped into the Gang Car engine work to figure out the next move on the rod bearings. It seems that there will need to be a little machining work done which Dwight will chase down during the week. Bruce, Ben and Paul spent some of the morning searching through the parts in our storage boxcars for some items that could be useful in the C&W Caboose upgrade. Colin did some work with our pickup trucks to start them and check out the batteries after the cold snap we just had.

After a lunch break, and with the temperature warming up, Bruce and Ben got busy to find spikes and install them in the timbers used to cap the ends of the new dirt crossings on the shop lead tracks to complete that project. Chris and Dwight attended to some accumulated used oil in the shop and contained that while cleaning up. Towards the end of the day, the gang worked on clearing some dead weeds from around the lead tracks and started prep work for an upcoming project. You might be able to figure out what that is while checking out one of the photos attached.

– Paul

Photos by Paul Brown and Bruce Davis