On Saturday, March 29, volunteers Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Chris Pollard, Reid Adams, Bryan Tong, Dannis Hudson, Abel Erber, Polly Cotton and Paul Brown stayed busy today doing a variety of work. While the biggest group got busy firing up and checking out Locomotive 104 and the Cabooses, Chris stayed busy cleaning the inside of the Rohr, one of our pieces of high speed equipment, while Colin did some checks on the Bobcat and investigated pricing for badly needed new tires. And Polly cleaned our break room which was needed and very much appreciated! The crew on the train did some work to establish good markers for the end of our running track, check some switch stand operation, and moved and rearranged a few freight cars on one of our storage tracks.

After parking the train set back at the shop, the crew took a quick lunch break before heading out to work on clearing dirt from our running track, and working to fix some horn valve issues on Engine 104. We even had some visitors to the shop area who were able to get some nice tours. The crew finished up and got out of town before the rain moved in.

I have only got a few pictures of the train operation today as it was tough to keep up with all of the action today!

– Paul