On Saturday, March 9, volunteers Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Bruce Davis, Chris Pollard, Dannis Hudson, Polly Cotton and Paul Brown worked on several projects, the first being one of the most important jobs at the Museum, cleaning up blown in tumbleweeds. While it doesn’t seem important, it greatly improves the looks of the Museum grounds. While that work was being done, we were also charging the locomotive batteries in hope that we can start Engine 104 come the end of the month for the Easter event. When the weed cleanup was completed, we did some work on our Hi-Rail truck, and then took a lunch break.
After lunch, we decided to take a look at our Wig Wag Crossing signal and see if we could figure out why the bell wasn’t very loud and the target wasn’t swinging fully. A few volunteers were able to get up to the mechanism to clean dirt and bugs out of the housing, adjust the gong bell so it now rings louder, and find a way to adjust a pair of contacts to allow for a larger swing arc for the target. We wrapped up the day by doing some measuring in the C&W Caboose for some future work.
Here are a few pictures of the crew in action.
– Paul
