Nice video Hansel. Brendan, thanks for posting all the photos. Good stuff youz guyz!
There are many people who made the picnic a great success. Some started days before the event, beginning work on Monday the 4th and working every day until the weekend. A few volunteers who went the extra mile are: Fred, Dwight, Bill and his son Brian who cut weeds and brush, making our grade crossings safer. Steve, Kathy, Cindy and Dawn who shopped for food and did prep work prior to Saturday. A lot of people set things up on Friday. Preparations included: setting up the dining hall tent, grill, tables, chairs, moving the fridge from the house and loading fruit cups for Saturdays' lunch. Coal was loaded and brought for #10. Switching was done to free up and move cars for special trains and operations. Track work (lifting, leveling and tamping) was done on the main stem of the upper yard spur for safer train handling since there were a number of special moves through there. John M. was the engineman on #52 that did much of the switching.
New merchandise was rolled out just in time for the picnic: A special 25th Anniversary T shirt (designed by James and Linda) went on sale Saturday morning. Also, the museums' 2015 calendar was available, with more beautiful photographs from Stephen Hussar. The 2015 issue is back to the color format. The gift shop crew put in extra hours getting ready and maning the counters for two long days. A special thank you to the member who donated a new refrigerator for the Percival house, just in time for the picnic.
There are many more folks who set up displays, helped with the Saturday evening freight and did other behind-the-scenes work ... thanks for your dedication to the WW&F Railway!
