Saturday, Feb 09: the crew of Clayton Cullen, Wayne Mosbacher and Hank Welch (with the Rush Bob Cat) loaded and spread 10 carloads of ballast at the end of track.  Neubauer walked out there in time to get a ride back. 

Dale Bitsch was out there "moling" on the mainline just east of the Ballast Spur working on the signal system. 

Steve Haack worked on making brackets to hold 403's cowcatcher and measured and sized 928's sand dome.

Saturday as also the  Train Show at the Dupo, Illinois High School in the A.M.  Dupo is just south of Cahokia on IL 3 a few miles.  It is the site of a huge yard of the Union Pacific running parallel to "Rt. 3".  The WF&P had a table and David Neubauer, Kary Eckrich, and Jim Greathouse were passing out brochures and selling our shirts, videos, wooden whistles etc.  David left there about Noon as the guys that have our new "big loco", #2205, were going to move it around for him.  If you go to our website www.wfprr.com there is a photo of it in color and a description that David created for it.  They moved the loco and they took some movies of David simulating that he was running the big box. 

No report for Sunday at this time

Wednesday, Feb 13  saw Jim Scott, Jimmy Scott and Jim Greathouse working in the car barn on brake flat #151 checking truck springs, greasing, checking brakes.  The flat car was flipped over to check couplers, pockets and brake rigging.  See pictures

Mike Lorance was working on the alarm system. Hank Welch was there (I think he was replacing florescent light bulbs in the round house). Jim Keeton was due to come out and weld some on 151.  He had not arrived before I had to leave.

Jim Greathouse