Thursday, December 8th
Earl Pardini led a crew that repaired a dot defect and a loose joint bar in the Route 209 crossing. Crew consisted of Earl Pardini, Edwin Winstanley, Todd Syska, Mark Glaser, Peter Fluchere, Joe Wolff, Vince Guido and John Marino. After lunch tamping was done from 5.90 to 6.3.
Friday December 9th
On Friday, Earl Pardini, John Marino and Mark Glaser did trackwork west of the North Pole.
Also, Dave Hilliard, Ernie Klopping and Earl Pardini installed a toilet in 1727.
Earl Pardini was Engineer, Dave Hilliard was Conductor, Tom Whyte was Brakeman. The flaggers were Ernie Klopping, Bruce Devorkin, David Motzkin, Tony Bocchino and Peter Fluchere. Mark Glaser assisted with the train operation. Jim Bruck set up the parking lot barricades. Folks in the gift shop were: Pat Smalley, Elissa Hilliard, Karin Vogel, Kathy Schneider and Meg Carey. Elissa Hilliard worked the food tent and provided hot coffee, tea and homemade chicken soup.
Matt Gillis was in charge of the event.
Saturday 12/10
Dave Hilliard was Engineer, Hunter Downie was Conductor, John Marino was Brakeman, Martin Elbrecht was brakeman trainee. The flaggers were Bruce Devorkin, Russ Hallock, Joe Wolff, Peter Fluchere and Steve Stanton. Mark Glaser and Tony Bocchino assisted with the train operation. Folks in the gift shop were: Pat Smalley, Jan Harrison, Karin Vogel, Marcia Roosa, Fayth and Dakota Ryder.
Elissa Hilliard worked the food tent which provided hot coffee, tea and homemade vegetable tortellini soup and also kept the dinner warm. Matt Gillis was in charge of the event.
Art Vogel, Dave Heick, Harry Jameson and I brought the 29 back to the Phoenicia yard as well as picked up some items on the ROW. This was the last CMRR train on the west end of the railroad, ending 35 seasons of CMRR rail operations there:
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Sunday, December 11th
Tom Whyte was Engineer, Tony Bocchino was Conductor, Karl Wick was Brakeman. The flaggers were Ernie Klopping, Bruce Devorkin, Joe Wolff and Chris Ruger. Folks in the gift shop were: Pat Smalley and Linda Marino. Linda Marino and Elissa Hilliard worked the food tent which provided hot coffee, tea and also kept the dinner warm.
We carried nearly 4000 passengers in 11 trains this weekend in Kingston. Congrats to all who contributed to this fourth successful weekend for Polar Express.
Ernie Hunt
President
CMRR