Frank writes...
...back in time, in this case. You've read about Monday's news, but what about Sunday's news? Those suspicious characters with day jobs who were alluded to in yesterday's post (ha ha) are guilty of taking too much time to get their photos posted, so you'll just have to make do with yesterday's news tomorrow. Or something.
Someone else keeping busy was Joel, who spent the day inspecting the 308! As with the past few years, we've scheduled the CA&E wood cars to operate for Vintage Transport Extravaganza. But we need three cars to handle the crowds, and with a broken leaf spring under the 36, we're short a car. Enter the 308, which of course still has its motors out for repair - but is serviceable as a trailer, or "coach" as the CA&E called them. A huge thank you to Joel and to our switch crews for bringing the 308 over to Barn 4 on Saturday night and extracting it Sunday evening. I helped couple it up to the 309 and 319 and run it back to Barn 8, but managed to forget to grab a photo - oops. You'll just have to join us on August 4th for the 308's first time carrying passengers in more than five years.
Thanks, too, to Bob Olson for sending along some additional news photos! First, this is the crew that brought the 213's door over to Barn 8 and hoisted it up into the 213. You saw "the rest of the story" in the Monday update. L-R that's Jimmy, Greg, Brian, Richard, and Zach.
4 comments:
Hi Randy and Frank,
The mystery trackworker may be Hunter O'Dell, who went to Penn State Altoona and volunteered with us at Rockhill for a bit. I heard he was volunteering at IRM. It sort of looks like him.
Joel Salomon
Thanks, Joel. Evidently your loss is our gain. Just to even things up, would you happen to need an Executive Director?
Sorry I missed it or forgot, what is the matter with the 1374? RE the 308 - I remember coming back from a long road trip to Dayton to ride vintage trolleybuses circa 1985, and having stopped in Noblesville, I made my way over to the woodshop and told Johnson that he ought to make a move as soon as possible to get the 308 because it was clear to me this museum was on its last legs as a trolley group. Johnson's eyebrows raised and the thinking machine got going. Well ITM survived a whole nother 35 years or so, but it was great IRM got the 308 well before that meltdown. O.
As far as I know, nothing is wrong with the 1374. Some astute person realized that if we ran three cars on the streetcar line during DOWT instead of four, we’d have a lot fewer problems with cars stacking up. So, this year only three cars were run (and this worked very well, I’d say). The 1374, with fewer seats than the others, stayed in the barn as a backup.
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