On Saturday, April 6, volunteers Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Kendall Crouch, Bruce Davis, Chris Pollard and Paul Brown braved high winds strong enough to blow your hard hat clean off your head and down the street about a block!! Luckily, our planned work was mostly indoors, but we were not completely spared. Our first work involved cleaning the back area of our shop where we had a slight oil spill from storing used oil in skimpy plastic containers. In addition to cleaning the oil, we cleaned up a lot more junk, dirt and dust from the area, and stuffed the already 3/4 full 3 yd dumpster we have on site. Yes, a little Spring cleaning happened!
After a lunch break, we split up and tackled a couple different projects. Bruce, Kendall and Colin worked to figure out the cupola window problem in our Rio Grande caboose. Though this car looks pretty good, it is old, and thus has problems with moving parts and such. After about an hour of effort, they had the windows operating better, but found even more issues that will need a little attention in the near future. Chris and Dwight did some work to the wiring for a set of connectors on our locomotive battery charger to improve the hook-ups for the jump batteries on the ground. Paul was spotted walking over to the Depot display area to find other problems that will need attention in the future.
Except for the hurricane force winds, we had a productive day.
– Paul
Photos by Paul Brown and Chris Pollard
