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Volunteers / October 2021 Work Reports

« on: September 29, 2021, 06:46:55 AM »

Anticipated work for Saturday October 2:

* Engine house construction
* Coach 9 machining of parts
* Pumpkin trains and a concert

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Volunteers / September 2021 Work Reports

« on: September 01, 2021, 07:09:43 AM »

Anticipated work for Saturday September 4, 2021:

* Shop Annex - continuing the move of "stuff" from the shop to the annex.
* Sheepscot back lot - I think Mike may be working on the back lot, moving dirt around.
* Public train ops.

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Volunteers / July 2021 Work Reports

« on: June 30, 2021, 07:03:59 AM »

Anticipated work for Saturday July 3, 2021:

* Lavender Ice Cream trains.
* Earth moving with Mike.
* Garden tool shed modifications.
* Tie cutting and stacking

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Museum Discussion / Movie about #9: "The Nine Lives of #9"

« on: June 21, 2021, 06:05:39 PM »

The Thompson (CT) Historical Society has created a movie about Locomotive 9, "The Nine Lives of #9", and is debuting soon.  Here's the info:

Movie Premiere: The 9 Lives of Engine #9
Saturday, August 14, 2021 at1:15 p.m. EDT
Thompson, Connecticut, Public School Auditorium

Join us for the fascinating story of little Engine #9 that was brought from Wiscasset, Maine to Frank Ramsdell's West Thompson farm in 1937. Find out what happened in this 55 minute movie. Showings will be held at 1:15 pm and 2:45 pm. Tickets are free but seating is limited and reservations are required. To reserve your tickets please contact Ginny at 860-933-5239 by call or text or email her atgfloodster@gmail.com. Please indicate which show you want to attend and also the number of tickets. Six ticket limit per family please. Also open on August 14th from 1-4 pm: Ramsdell Transportation Room, TMHS Memorial Room and the Kenney Store and Villages Room.  For more details see: https://www.facebook.com/events/777261879509871/?active_tab=about

Here's a link to the actual Facebook page:
https://fb.me/e/IzTHbOID?ti=icl

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Museum Discussion / Make Way for Goslings

« on: May 15, 2021, 08:43:43 PM »

A couple of weeks ago I noticed a young goose family wandering on the ROW south of Sheepscot.  Last Saturday I caught them crossing Cross Road.  One of the parent was standing in the road keeping an eye on traffic and on the kids, and when I approached got the family together to cross over to the pond.  This week they were missing.  Stewart said that he saw a hawk show up this past week, and the family disappeared, so I hope that they found safer digs instead of becoming a meal.

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Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad / Thank You from the SR&RL

« on: May 06, 2021, 06:16:41 PM »

I renewed my membership with the SR&RL recently, and in my receipt letter that came today was this hand written note.

On my behalf tell the WW&F guys a big thanks for helping the SR&RL
Regard, Jerry DeVos

This was thanking us for the work we did last fall building track into their car barn.

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Volunteers / May 2021 Work Reports

« on: April 28, 2021, 06:50:28 AM »

Anticipated work for Saturday May 1 - Annual Meeting day

* "Director's Special" - train ride for members going to MP 8, and also making stops at Top of Mountain and Alna Center (to review the pavilion).  I think departure is 10:30.
* Annual Meeting - online and in-person, in the car barn extension, at 2 PM.
* Machine shop organization
* Vehicle repair

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Volunteers / April 2021 Work Reports

« on: March 31, 2021, 06:48:41 AM »

Anticipated work for Saturday April 3:

* Springtime Eggspress with SeaLyon Farm - trains to Alna Center.
* Boxcar 56
* Machine Shop reorg
* Vehicle repair
* Garage area reorg

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Volunteers / 2020 Off-site hours

« on: March 01, 2021, 07:59:45 AM »

I'm finally in a position to accept 2020 off-site hours for inclusion in last year's volunteer record.  You can email me your hours.

The best format is a spreadsheet with columns of beginning date and time, ending date and time, and description of what you did.  You can also get me the date and number of hours and what you did.  If your hours aren't tracked in a spreadsheet, a Word Doc is OK, as is putting it in the body of the email.

Thanks to the pandemic and all the shutdowns and cancelations, total hours for last years are way down (no surprise there).

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Volunteers / January 2021 Work Reports

« on: December 30, 2020, 07:53:59 AM »

At last we put 2020 behind us!  Anticipated work for Friday and Saturday Jan 1 and 2:

* Pavilion - whatever Mike has left to do (Friday)
* Top of Mtn tree clearing (Saturday)
* Boxcar 56
* Vehicle repair
* Winter Caboose Adventure - steam trains on Saturday

There's a snow/rain storm forecast for Saturday, so some of these may change.

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Volunteers / October 2020 Work Reports

« on: September 30, 2020, 07:15:33 AM »

Anticipated work for Saturday October 3:

* Pavilion
* Pumpkin trains
* Vehicle repairs

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Museum Discussion / WMTW visits WW&F

« on: September 14, 2020, 07:31:03 PM »

The program link here: https://www.wmtw.com/article/museum-in-small-maine-town-offers-train-ride-into-states-railroad-past/34015926

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US Two Footers / Mystery Two Foot

« on: August 03, 2020, 09:23:02 PM »

Came across a slide that's only marked "2 foot gauge railroad".  The year is 1970, taken by my father.  I can't identify it.  It's not Boothbay Railway Village - the rail is too heavy, the locomotive isn't right.  Pretty certain it's not Edaville - same deal.  Anyone with any ideas?

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Volunteers / August 2020 Work Reports

« on: July 29, 2020, 06:45:39 AM »

Anticipated work for Saturday, August 1:

* Crew training - 9 - 4 Since testing will be administered online after the training session, you have no excuse to miss the....
* Board meeting at 4.

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Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad / SR&RL not operating this year

« on: July 20, 2020, 02:27:16 PM »

Due to difficulties with the pandemic restrictions, the SR&RL museum has decided not to operate trains this year.  I don't know if they aren't opening up for people just to drop in, or not.