June 2024 work reports

[Bill Baskerville]

Looking great Mike!

[Jeff Schumaker]

Nice work, Mike.
Will just the seats be painted?

Jeff

[Mike Fox]

Yes, except the older ones that came painted. I am building 6 new ones that just the seats are painted on.

[Bruce Wilson]

Mike, will there be a shelter up at Top of the Mountain in the future? I read where passengers can take a tour of the nearby Sea Lyon Farm and I also recall about Dana acquiring a sawmill for that site. Just curious if any structure will be provided for inclement weather operations.

[James Patten]

Bruce, eventually there will be structures at Top of Mountain.  A structure to house the sawmill/shingle mill, and a passenger shelter, current thought is to loosely resemble the Wiscasset station.  And real platforms.

[James Patten]

Anticipated work for Saturday June 22:

* Public trains, including Ride the Rails to Hike the Trails (with Midcoast Conservancy)
* Enginehouse work is resuming
* Boxcar 56
* Loco 11/other machine shop work
* Grounds work

[Bruce Wilson]

Thank you James, that sounds exciting!

[James Patten]

Work done on Saturday June 22:

* Boxcar 56: It was rolled out this afternoon for photos.  Marcel has a tiny bit of work left to do on it.  Dan was working on door gates and is still working on kitting out the interior.  Stewart was also working on bits and pieces for it as well.
* Mike delivered more benches to AC.
* Mike was also working on the dozer.
* In the engine house, Brendan was gathering extra materials to be deposited in the Buildings container.
* Excavator cart: I was doing some filing on pieces to make them fit better.
* Public trains, including a full 1 PM train.

[Mike Fox]

4 new benches for AC



First patron to use the new ramp to the platform at Sheepscot.

[Bruce Wilson]

Well done to Marcel and crew on the fantastic restoration of the boxcar. And a great job to Mike on the seating up at Alna Center.

[Jason M Lamontagne]

Anticipated Work
Week of June 24, 2024

Monday:
Enginehouse ceiling possible
Smoke jack design finalizing
XCart wheel work

Tuesday:
Box56 trial ops
Switching/ Ops Staging
Truck brake work
Build11 truck work
Coach 9 siding work
Enginehouse ceiling (not sure Brendan’s schedule)
XCart wheel work

Wednesday
Build11 truck work
Coach 9 siding
XCart wheel work
Enginehouse ceiling possible

Thursday
XCart
Enginehouse ceiling possible

Friday
Enginehouse ceiling possible

[James Patten]

Anticipated work for Saturday June 29:

* Public trains, Civil War re-enactment weekend, and the debut of KC #4 and the use of Boxcar 56 as a "hobo" experience.
* Machine shop/Loco 11
* Engine house work

[Dave Buczkowski]

To add to what James said, and, hopefully, some weed whacking at Head Tide.
Dave

[James Patten]

Work done on Saturday June 29:

* Civil War re-enactment trains and first running of Boxcar 56 in "hobo" mode.  I think 56 is heavier than caboose 320.  Good patronage.
* People were in the machine shop but I don't know what they were working on.
* Linda made lunch
* Brendan cleaned up the remaining lumber from the platform project.

[Dave Buczkowski]

Brian W did some serious cutting and weed whacking at Head Tide. The owner was ecstatic when I sent her photos. There is still much whacking to do though. Many thanks Brian!
Dave