Photos attached are of Dale digging a trench at Bluffs to connect a Westbound signal as an approach to the yard limit signal. The exterior of the carbarn extension is done with the installation of the door. Track 1 still needs to be extended plus some addition interior work but it looks great thanks to Hank & crew. 928 is ready for a new coat of paint and Lawson painted the interior panels on the roundhouse doors. 

 

The WF&P will be represented by Jim Greathouse and the roving 171 at the Kirkwood Train Show this Saturday 4/14 from 9am to 3pm. If you are able to help Jim during the day please let him know.

 

Many thanks to Paul Konopacki who has taken scenes from the WF&P films he took in 2006 and put together an excellent 30 minute video. We will be selling this at the souvenir table and also use it as a video brochure as needed. Paul has also placed several hours of Brown Road and early Glencoe film on DVD (narrated by Neubie). If you are interested in copies of any DVDs please contact me.

 

Today was another busy day at the WF&P with Foster priming the smoke box on 534 and Tabernacki painting 535's smoke box and re-assembling it for the season. Scotty & Son along with Keaton & Brennan painted the last of the 4 Shapiro gons and took the newly rebuilt caboose for a ride to the wye and back. Last Saturday was Trail cleanup day and the City of Wildwood has a dumpster in our back parking lot which Mike & Hank put to good use cleaning up some more of the junk around the yard.

 

Sunday was very quiet due to the Easter Holiday but Saturday saw the garage door installed on the new section of the carbarn by Hank, Mike L, Devin & myself. Another gondola was painted in the carbarn with J & J Scott & Keaton; Haack was getting 928 ready for a coat of paint and Dale was digging a signal wire trench at Bluffs.

The roof on the GFK will be replaced by a contractor sometime in the next 3 weeks. Mike is getting bids on removing the big tree in front of the crew shack as it is in bad shape and Hank hopes to still replace one of the abutments at Dry Gulch bridge before operations begin. The steamers need to be readied for opening day, all the rolling stock will be greased and weed spraying will be done on the main line. We are getting closer to having patterns made for wheels, side frames & couplers as the pattern maker, Joe Ahrens, was out two Saturdays ago to review the work with Jim Scott.

Our web site is already getting a lot of hits with the operating season nearing. Thanks to Greathouse for keeping the site up to date. 

Jim