Sunday Report

Frank writes...

The first weekend of Day Out With Thomas 2025 has come and gone - one down, one to go!

I wasn't able to make it out to the museum until about 2pm, by which time things were starting to wind down. Above is Thomas's second-to-last departure of the day, as seen from the entrance at the Wagner Loop. Richard, Greg, and Jeron were holding down ticket scanning duties while John and a few others managed on-site sales and handed out Happy Holiday Railway flyers to people on their way out. The weather was great, unusually cool for the Thomas event (by which I mean about 80 degrees).

I proceeded to keep myself busy, but unfortunately I neglected to take any more usable photos - sorry! I applied quite a bit more masking to Shaker 63 and then put some primer on the belt rail stripes down the left side of the car. I also spent some time organizing spare parts we have in storage. Many thanks to Richard and Good Nick for their help with this work! Finally, I realized a few weeks ago that NJT 4 and Shaker 63 - our two ex-Twin City Rapid Transit PCCs - had no public signage at all to identify them or speak to their history. So, we printed and laminated some basic signs and on Sunday I taped them in the car windows. We'll see about making more permanent metal signs for the cars later, as time and resources permit.