Frank writes...
I wasn't able to get out to IRM until 5pm on Sunday, at which point the rain that had been falling all day was just letting up and operations had ended. Fortunately, I still had enough time to get some work done.
Above, welcome to Track 73, or as it's currently known, the "Frank Hicks Hall of Broom Jobs." With the 205, 63, and 18 all on this track, plus the 755 right across the aisle on 74, it's quite the tableau of mediocrity. But anyway, I painted a coat of dark ivory onto the 63's belt rail before dinner and then after dinner I put a second coat of vermilion on the right side of the car below the belt rail. The ivory color looks pretty sharp with the orange. I also measured the back-to-back on the 18's wheels (Will and Ashton helped with this) so our indefatigable Track Department volunteers can look at the South Junction switch and see if adjustments can be made to help our favorite center-entrance streetcar track through there better.
And Bus Day was over, but Richard and Joel showed me the above "punch card," which I thought was a nifty idea. I guess they've been doing this for a couple of years, but I am rarely out on Saturdays so I hadn't encountered it before.
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Seeing the comment about "broom jobs" has me smiling, not 100% sure on this but the late Tom Shade at Branford/Shore Line MAY have coined that phrase in the early 1970's...many of Branford's broom jobs have gone on to progress well beyond the simple broom job..
IRM has some legacy broom jobs by the late Jim Blower, who wrote a book on the Northern Ohio. One of them I know is NSL 253.
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