A Frightfully Good Time

A frightfully good time was had by all on Saturday, I think. I continued to slowly repaint the main compartment in the 319.




And as always, there were many ongoing projects in every department. I can only show a couple of them.

As I happened by, Mike Stauber and Dan Fenlaciki were installing the new people catcher under the west end of the 141, supervised of course by Frank Sirinek. This is one of the many underbody components that had to be re-engineered from scratch as the car is restored. The lighting made it nearly impossible to get a good picture, though. So see it for yourself.

And Bob Kutella has been lettering the newly repainted hopper. As you can see, it now reads "GREAT NO." Bob has decided that a few abbreviations will save a lot of work.

Yesterday was a beautiful fall day, with just the right sort of weather to bring people out for....

Terror on the Railroad!

I was a trainman on the Screamliner, so was unable to take pictures during the event, and in any case we're forbidden to take pictures of the actors. So here are some shots I took during the day.

The Screamliner sits on station 2, where incoming passengers board the RDC.

After a thorough ride of screams and fright, people make their way over to the Train of Terror, a motley collection of stationary equipment on the west wye. This includes a boxcar sitting on the lead to Yard 1, accessed by a wooden passageway.

I guess I could take a picture of this: Phil had the Birmingham's kitchen set up with coffee, hot chocolate, and assorted snacks for the operating crews and actors. It makes it much easier to get through the night. Thanks, Phil!

I don't know the exact totals, but we had lots of visitors and were running the train until 12:40 the next morning. What a scream!