Friday, July 10, 2026

Puzzles Everywhere

Today, let's see how good you are at solving yesterday's puzzles.   

To begin with, Tim spent much of his time carefully cutting out this piece of wood.  What in the world is this for?


Next, we see Fred and Steve solving the electrical problems at the east end of the 306.  This is much less puzzling the second time you do it.


There's no puzzle about what I was doing -- installing the second beam on the 319.


But wait, something seems to be missing!   What could it be?


Aha, the air hose.  Much better.

Finally, we see Tim putting together the slats on the floor for the 268.  It's a giant jigsaw puzzle.


And the kingpin is inserted through this hole in the magic piece we saw earlier.


Our final puzzle: what mysterious masked figures arrived on Thursday and were quickly led into one of the storage barns to hide until Saturday?  Hint: tickets are still on sale!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Are those new reproduction advertising carcards for 1268? I do ours at East Troy -Sean Bowen

Randall Hicks said...

Yes, they are. Perhaps I can get Tim to share some of the secrets he's using to get these reproduced. That would be another good subject for our Restoration Resources collection.

Anonymous said...

I'm working on our 4000s at East Troy right now. I did the 1924-era cards in 4420 and the 1935/36 cards in 4453 last year. I'm doing the mid-1960s cards for 4439 this year. -Sean Bowen