Report for Thursday July 22 thruTuesday July 27th.

First I should point out that the dates on most of the July reports
are incorrect. I failed to turn my office calendar to July from June.

Thursday was spent moving items out of the container to make room for
John Weir's tractor. It now barely fits inside. Several loads of wood
were moved to the shed, a lot of other stuff was relocated in the
container, the long ladders went to the shed. We moved the scaffolding
into the boxcar behind 1112, in the process we found 4 stoves that
belonged in the archives section of the house so these were moved with
the tractor. There is still a lot of organizing left to do in the
container and that boxcar. This took up nearly the whole day. Workers
were, John W and his tractor, Bill M, Brian K, Ross R, Al W.. William
Seabrooke and Tom Caine helped and then went off to clear up scrap
siding and cut down weeds behind the shed.

At the end of the day the 3 motorcars on the breeze way were moved to
the front and back platforms to make space for the model rail exhibit
to be held on Saturday.

Gee sorted thru the recently returned accessioning sheets. A bit more
work and they should all be in proper order, then we can enter the
basic
info into a database.

Anne and the students cleaned up the room in the tower of the station,
moved a filing cabinet full of photos across the hall into a storage
room. They plan to repaint this room.

On Saturday Doug K, Al W, John Weir and Rian M shifted the track at
the entrance to the shed over a few inches so that Car 23 will not rub
on the door post. On Sunday Doug was cleaning up the site.

On Tuesday Tony dumped a lot of concrete fill in the hole at the end
of the shed track so that we can extend it a few hundred feet for
switching cars out and into the shed. He also got the rails at the
switch cut. This is a major contribution to getting the switch
finished.
Maybe we will yet be able to roll 23 out at the Railfest.

During the week Ross fabricated an air distribution manifold for the
compressor and sand blasted the fan and water pump body. He is
searching
for parts to complete the re-building of the pump.

Noel White, Anne's husband has produced a beautiful set of iometric
drawings of the proposed rear gate, for presentation at the next board
meeting. If this is approved we will get at it as the existing gate is
falling apart and would be a waste of resources to replace it as is.

Hope I got the major items into this report.

Ross Robinson, with input from Doug, Tony and Brian.