December 2014 Work Planning

[James Patten]

Anticipated work for Saturday December 6:

* North car barn: raise the roof trusses.  We need all available help.  This is weather permitting, of course.  Right now the weather forecast for Saturday is 50% chance of showers.  Keep watching this space for a cancellation.

[Steve Zuppa]

Due to the expected snow/ice/rain conditions predicted for Saturday, the truss raising party has been rescheduled for Dec. 13th, once again, weather permitting.

[Mike Fox]

Thank you Steve. I will drop anchor and ride the storm out here.

[Fred Morse]

Does anyone know when we'll get the Christmas trees we need in Two weeks and getting Santa's throne fixed up? Looks like a lot of storms and work in the next Two weeks.

[John McNamara]

I'm hoping that the truss-raising party next weekend (13-14) will take place and that there will be sufficient people on hand that some can work on these tasks.
-John

[James Patten]

Work done on Saturday December 6:

Not much.  Because of the winterish weather, few people showed up.  Nobody wanted to work out in the cold rain.  So we replaced some shelves in the office, put up a blackboard in the basement, sat around and chatted, ate lunch, cleaned up and went home.

[Stewart "Start" Rhine]

Actually ... two members stayed late.  Brendan worked on #9's tank braces and Cindy did mail order work as well as opening the gift shop to sell some items to Josh B.

[James Patten]

Anticipated work for weekend of Saturday December 13:

Friday:
* Board meeting at 4:30, in the house.
* Folks may be around working on storm clean up.

Saturday:
* Victorian Christmas prep (included a #10 fire-up)
* Storm clean up

Zack has decided to postpone the truss raising on the car shed until Spring - maybe work weekend, maybe later.

[Fred Morse]

Now that the car barn has been shelved for the winter, what are our plans foe Sats. I know we will have to cut a cord or Two of hard wood for the steam engines, maybe clearing or thinning out trees at the top of the mountain, a little work can be done in the cellar. Of course some of this will depend on how much snow we get, if any. I would like to see an open winter with good frozen ground but that's rare. If we don't stay busy at the museum people will lose interest.

[Ken Fleming]

If we should have a number of good size logs from thinning, we should hold them for Spring and run a "log" train.  Logs can be loaded with a little leverage, a couple of peavies and some strong backs.  Great photo opportunity.  Horse logging would be even better.  For ideas surf YouTube for early logging videos for how-toos.

[James Patten]

Work for Saturdays this winter is a great discussion point for tonight's board meeting.

[Stewart "Start" Rhine]

The Percival house basement needs sheetrock work.  Good inside project.

[Mike Fox]

I would like to see the carbarn work continue. We can set the trusses when it is cold. If we wait until spring it will be muddy again.

[Paul Uhland]

Mike, I agree.
I'll bet those nice, straight trusses, and the rest of the car barn framework, will become weather-worn and warped if not placed and protected by a roof.
Besides, watching you guys do such great work is very rewarding!

[James Patten]

Work done on Saturday, Dec 13:

* Car barn - Zack, Fred and others started putting on bracing on the bottom portion of the east wall.
* Loco 10 - #10 was steamed up for some test runs using a new drafting layout.  We ran a test train with 4 cars, clearing out crossings on the first trip to Alna Center.  The second trip was just halfway to AC.

Jason and crew plan to do switching, decorate, and get everything ready during the week.