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June 2025 Work Reports
« on: June 04, 2025, 09:00:33 AM »
Anticipated work for Saturday & Sunday June 7-8:

* Public trains, both Saturday and Sunday (Sunday is the concert).
* Engine house work
* Archives - Reconstituted Archive committee meeting at 1 on Saturday.
* Machine shop
* Board meeting at 4 Saturday.
* 2026 Operational planning meeting following the Board meeting.

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Re: June 2025 Work Reports
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2025, 05:36:32 AM »
Anticipated work for Saturday June 14:

* Public trains: Father's Day pig roast at SeaLyon Farm.
* Engine house work
* Archives - beginning to move some resources to an off-site storage
* Machine shop
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Re: June 2025 Work Reports
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2025, 04:21:45 PM »
Work done on Saturday June 14:

* Archives: boxes of books were moved from the Percival house to a secure "temporary" location offsite.
* Engine house: Stewart was painting trim.
* Public trains: Pig Roast at SeaLyon Farms, the trains were (I believe) sold out.

And it only lightly rained for a time in the morning.  By mid afternoon the sun was out.
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Re: June 2025 Work Reports
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2025, 05:38:49 AM »
Anticipated work for Saturday June 21:

* Public trains, "The Road to Togus" - Civil War reenactors both Saturday and Sunday.
* Archival object move - moving more boxes from Archives to an offsite location.
* Engine house work
* Grounds work
* Machine shop
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Re: June 2025 Work Reports
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2025, 04:33:52 PM »
Work done on Saturday June 21:

NO RAIN!  First Saturday of no rain since March.  Beautiful day.

* Archival move - more boxes of books were moved from the upstairs closet to an offsite location.
* Engine house work - Stewart was painting trim, Brendan was putting up strips to attach the metal ceiling to.
* Public trains - very well attended.  I saw the re-enactors do their stuff.  (FYI today is also the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill)
* Grounds - Mike was de-ticking at Alna Center, and doing some work around Sheepscot.
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Re: June 2025 Work Reports
« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2025, 05:20:16 PM »
Quote from: James Patten on June 21, 2025, 04:33:52 PM
* Grounds - Mike was de-ticking at Alna Center, and doing some work around Sheepscot.
I put out 10 bags of Ortho Bug Bgone at AC using a broadcasting fertilizer spreader, and a hand help one in the trees. Averill Rd was also trimmed.
Prep work at Sheepscot in the afternoon for track work on the woods track.
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Re: June 2025 Work Reports
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2025, 05:33:45 AM »
Anticipated work for Saturday June 28:

* Public trains
* Engine house work
* Grounds work
* Archives
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Re: June 2025 Work Reports
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2025, 07:21:44 AM »
Best way to get rid of Ticks - a flock of chickens or Guinea fowl.  They love them.............
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Re: June 2025 Work Reports
« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2025, 10:21:34 AM »
Good point John. I noticed the folks at Sealyon Farm are grazing a herd of baby goats in their fields. Maybe a little free range grazing (along the W.W. & F.) would help the cause?
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Re: June 2025 Work Reports
« Reply #9 on: June 26, 2025, 03:55:05 PM »
I know it had been discussed in the past of having a (rent-a-goat) group to help out with ROW Maintenance.  Don't know what ever became of it.
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Re: June 2025 Work Reports
« Reply #10 on: June 26, 2025, 10:49:28 PM »
I know they have had good results w/ goats & sheep

on hillsides & steep Highway ROW here in MN.
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Re: June 2025 Work Reports
« Reply #11 on: June 26, 2025, 11:11:13 PM »
Based on our use of goats in the retirement community where I live to eat vegetation on both sides of a protected creek, it will take 30 goats about 2-3 weeks to do both sides of the right of way for one-half mile. They are very thorough. Goat herder provides fencing to focus their eating location.
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Re: June 2025 Work Reports
« Reply #12 on: June 27, 2025, 01:13:01 PM »
Allan, SeaLyon Farms has that designated eating area fencing up now. In a few weeks, they will have the ground cleared and will be off to a new dining area.
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Re: June 2025 Work Reports
« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2025, 04:16:04 PM »
Work done on Saturday June 28:

* Steam maintenance: Friday it was discovered that a key pin in the piston rod holding it to the crosshead guide was very loose, so they tried to fix it, making it stuck.  Today the crew came up with a way to remove the pin, but it was too late for steam for the day.
* Machine shop: #10's boiler pieces were moved as was the tie grabber device for the MOW car so that the grabber could be welded to.
* Engine house: Brendan was at work.
* Grounds: Mike was doing a bit of work on the garden(?) track subballast.
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Re: June 2025 Work Reports
« Reply #14 on: June 29, 2025, 11:03:42 AM »
Also on Saturday, June 28th, 64 or so people rode our two public trains of the day, including 5 intrepid hikers and 3 trail guides who braved the wet to explore the Trout Brook Preserve trails.

"It must be Saturday.  It's raining again."
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