Report for Sunday, June 27th, 2010

I picked up a pile of sheets of steel roofing from a place outside
Metcalfe with Brian's help and delivered them to the museum. They are on
the back platform. I will order eavestrip on Monday. Then a new
permanent roof can be installed on the garden shed.

Bill M installed the safety guard rails on the hand car on the front
track. With help it was moved to the front of the line up of speeders so
it can now be used to give rides.

Ross managed to repair the lock on the platform side of the MWR doors.
He found some long oversize machine screws and turned the heads down to
fit the holes in the lock faceplate. Fortunately the thread in the old
mortice lock was not so badly stripped that the screws would not hold.
Locktite was applied to make sure the screws will not work loose again.

Allan and Ross moved the 4 pieces of heritage rail that was on the front
platform around to the end by the express office. Eventually these will
be stored indoors. We also then moved a baggage cart to the side near
the MWR entrance and placed the display suitcases on it.

Ross repaired the gate by the entrance to the shop, glued in a piece of
wood broken by vandals.

Allan and Doug K were working on the new switch on the shop lead. We
took the trailer to the back 40 and with 5 of us managed to load two 16
foot ties for the head block. These were dropped off on top of the rail
near where they will be installed.

Ross swept up in the new archives storage room. He also entered the data
on the registration form for two artifacts, finally the process has
begun. Only several thousand left to do. The next step is to move the
stoves and teletypes over from the express room.

Gee continued with "weeding" the flower beds at the house.

John Weir was giving tours of the blue caboose. We now have three
students on staff for the summer.

Anne and Freddie dropped in to say hello.

Ross Robinson.