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WW&F Railway Museum Discussion => Volunteers => Topic started by: James Patten on August 03, 2016, 05:58:31 AM
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Anticipated work for weekend of August 6 & 7:
* Turntable form work
* Boxcar 67
* Top of Mountain
* ROW Weed cutting
Whereas next weekend is the picnic, this weekend will probably be thin of volunteers.
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Sunday after lunch there will be some hooting and hollering as the Continental roars to life, hopefully, for the first time in atleast 20 years...
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Please record the sound for those of us who are "away".
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The walking trail from Headtide South has been completed from sign post to sign post, The sloping sides at the North end have not been done! I hope next week to go South from 218 to Trout brook 4 Ft. wide.
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Work done on Saturday August 6:
* Boxcar 67: Zack was cutting some lumber longitudinally for the roof, Marcel was working on some things.
* Turntable: Bob C. has been busy coating the big timbers with preservative. The two that were vertical were a little too close together for Bob to paint in between them, so we got the tractor out and nudged it. Bob was busy working on the area in between when I left.
* Yard Sale: Several of us moved yard sale material from House attic and car shop second floor to the basement.
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Dozer and the excavator were parked out of view for this weekend.
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Anticipated work for weekend of August 13 & 14: the Annual Picnic!
* Cooking, food serving
* Train operations and pretending to be someone from 1910
* Tour guides
* Music, old engines, and other good stuff
There will be a #9 125th birthday/restoration celebration on Saturday from 11:45 - 12:15. The 12:30 trip will be in two sections, the first pulled by diesel to bring photographers along the line, the second #9 pulling all original WW&F equipment. The VIPs from the celebration will be aboard this 2nd train.
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Work done on Saturday August 13:
* Food - food crew was busy, we had a new cook (Keri) and she had a blast. She has the job.
* Trains - We ran the regular passenger train until the PM, then we had two trains: the regular passenger train pulled by the diesel, usually a second section of the railcar, and an extra pulled by #9 of all the original equipment. The original equipment train ran all afternoon.
* #9 ceremony: At 11:45 president Steve Zuppa kicked off a ceremony celebrating the return of the engine to service, and its 125th birthday. Speakers were former president Larson Powell, #9 owner Dale King, State Senator Chris Johnson, and W&Q Treasurer Les Fossell. Senator Angus King sent a message recognizing the return of #9 to service.
* Yard sale - Linda made some good money and spent it all! The WW&F Palermo station sign was made available for purchase and she did. Meanwhile someone is giving her a scanner and printer for the archives!
* Music from Bitter Brew
* Gift shop was hopping as well.
We get to do it all again tomorrow (except for the ceremony)
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Excellent! Wish I could have been there this weekend rather than working.
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We did play a little with the shingle mill today. And I got to learn how to use our belt splicer from our Mill man, Dean. Sunday we may be tempted to see if the Continental will make the blade spin...
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The afternoon runs with three trains on the line went well. Written train orders were issued to each conductor and the crews followed the orders to a T ... even the Model T!
The evening photo special with #9 and the original train ran to TOM where a number of scenes were set up. We also had scenes and run-bys at AC. The photographers had a good time, one fellow had a new quad copter with a gopro camera sending video back to the control station. It was interesting seeing TOM from the air. The tired but happy train crew got back at 7:00 pm and managed to put everything away before it was totally dark.
Sunday will be easier with no extra mixed or special meets at TOM and AC.
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Written train orders were issued to each conductor
Form 19? :)
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Yes, Form 19's issued by the dispatcher.
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Work done on Sunday, August 14th:
* Weather - Sunny, 92 degrees. 110 tickets sold (210 on Saturday)
* Food - More great chow from our cookout lunch crew.
* Boxcar #67 - Zack worked on the roof stringers.
* Trains - #9 pulled the trains all day and RC4 ran as the second section. Good crowds on the trains.
* Yard Sale - More stuff was sold so more $ made.
* Music - Bitter Brew played more of their wonderful music.
* Shingle Mill - Mike Fox started early setting things up (crane, etc.) to place the engine on flatcar 118 with the mill. It didn't take long for Mike, Brendan and crew to move the engine and hook the mill up by flat belt drive. Mike ran the mill and a few shingles were made. Dana worked the mill when the train got back in, it was great to see the mill running after so many years.
* Media - A TV crew from WMTW came to shoot some B roll of the railroad and interview officers such as Pres. Steve Zuppa. The piece should air tonight during the 6:00 broadcast.
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Picnic pictures.
Crowd listening to the no. 9 speeches.
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Northbound extra with no. 9 and an all original equipment consist meets 52 with the scheduled southbound 12:30 pm passenger train. The Model T was following as a second section so 52 is flying green flags.
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Some of no. 9 during the afternoon.
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No. 9 at Alna Center during the evening photo train.
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Anticipated work for weekend of August 20:
It's the week after the picnic so probably not a lot of volunteers around.
* Turntable - hole drilling, preserving, dealing with the forms
* Boxcar 67
* Top of Mountain stuff
* Archives - Linda received a new printer and new scanner, so I think I'm going to be involved in the setup of that! Which means Linda would be happy if someone could be in the gift shop for her.
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On Monday 15th, Fred and Dwight finished cutting the small trees growing in the grass and weeds along the ROW. We started at mile post 7 and ended at the south top of mountain switch. This project was started early this spring in Sheepscot yard.
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Work done on Saturday August 20:
* Boxcar 67: Zack was making mortises (the holes) for roof wood.
* Turntable: Several people tackled the forms left from the center pour. Four sides got removed.
* Yard sale: Linda was cleaning up and consolidating from the yard sale in the basement
* Archives: The printer is here, and I started to set that up before getting pulled away on something else.
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* Turntable - Jonathan machined the rest of the spider wheels. Bob and Kerry applied more wood preservative to the bridge beams.
* Picnic - The coolers and folding chairs were removed from the shop building and hauled to the basement to be set up for the FWW dining hall. The front of the shop building was swept out and cleaned of other left over stuff from the picnic.
* House - Sonya Wyllie did a nice job cleaning the kitchen and rest rooms.
* Lunch - Fred made a nice meal for us. It was just like the old days except Kerry made extra items for desert and cut watermellon slices for us. Thanks!!
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Boxcar 67...per mortise/tenon callouts--Tenon:Tongue, mortise:hole. That's how I remember. ;)
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I use Mortise (Mouth) & Tenon (Tongue).
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Work done on Sunday, August 21st -
* Turntable - More wood preservative was applied to the bridge stringers.
* Promotion - A number of old trucks showed up so there was an impromptu antique truck show in front of the shop.
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Also TOM work was done, and included a special find. See TOM thread for pictures soon
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Thanks Mike, forgot to mention more work at TOM today with an interesting find.
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Anticipated work for weekend of August 27-28, 2016
* Turntable work: removing forms, painting on wood preservative, etc
* Boxcar 67
* Top of Mountain work
* Start of packing for Convention table
* Archives: setting up the printer, other computer work.
* Ice Cream Social trains - 12:30 - 2:30 trains (how could I forget?)
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This Saturday is the second Ice Cream Social for the 12:30, 1:30 and 2:30 trains so we need help with setting out extra cars at Alna Center and serving visitors who arrive by train.
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If by chance the Brookville gets shuffled Saturday, could it be left where I can easily use it Sunday morning?
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Mike...am assuming (oops) you'll be retrieving the Kubota and Case-y Twins from TOM to continue turntable sitework, now that all concrete is poured and after formwork cleared. :-\
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Our contractor will do more backfill work and then Zack will run pipe for the rain leaders. When the drainage pipes are set, more crushed rock will be brought in and road cloth will be spread on top for the sand/loam covering.
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Not yet Paul. More earth moving planned up north while I wait for availability of a ride..
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Work done on Saturday August 27:
* Turntable foundation: the forms all came off, helped out considerably by contractor Jeff Verney who dug around with his excavator, then filled in gravel between the center pivot and the outer ring wall. Jeff also dug a new ditch for the drain pipe under the driveway. Zack started fitting up pipes for drainage.
* Ice Cream Social: The 12:30 and 2:30 trains were pretty full, the 1:30 not so much.
* Archives: I tried in vain to get the new printer to talk via wifi to the computer. No go. Ed Lecuyer was there, so I asked Ed if he could do it, he had the same results. We both agreed with a USB cable connecting them. I also spent time looking for pictures for the clinic I'm giving at the Convention.
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New pipe under the driveway?
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If it's as discussed yesterday, we're just restoring the ditch that was filled in for the cement trucks. Said ditch leads away from pipe under driveway; I suspect that's what James was referring to.
See ya
Jason
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Some may recall the rather puny ditch that was dug to drain the SE side of the Percival House and the driveway. That ditch got filled in, and Jeff dug a much bigger ditch (not using a shovel either). It is no longer puny.
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It's also more direct, following the contour of the ring wall which avoids digging near the buried wires that are in the old ditch.
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Work done Sunday, Aug. 28th -
Fairly quiet day with about 40 adults and 20 children riding the train.
* Membership - We sold 3 new memberships including a life member.
* Turntable - Jeff did some earthwork early this morning.
* Gift shop - A new display was set up above the back cabinets.
* TOM - Mike and Fred worked at the field site.
* Archives - Dale worked on historic material.
* Shop - Some clean up was started to get ready for the National Narrow Gauge Convention because the first convention guests will arrive next Saturday.