Steaming video cameras at Lake Shore

Virtual Railfan set up two cameras at the museum. You pay a subscription fee and watch on your computer screen at home. Cameras are located at North East, Pa and several other places in the US. I took some screen shots and got permission to put them on the blog. The shots reflect the beautiful weather and sky changes we often take for granted.

A short video of the Caboose hop at Christmas at the station Dec 5th 2015.

1908 B&LE box car loaned to French Creek Valley HS

A 36 foot wooden box car built by Standard Steel in Pittsburgh will be trucked to the French Creek Valley Railroad Historical society in Meadville Pa. Here is a video of a CSX mixed freight passing the box car.

Charge batteries and check Plymouth

I went up to the museum in August. I hoped to meet with Steve to run the Plymouth Locomotive a bit. We wern’t able to move the engine but I did work on the headlight and get the light working.

I noticed a small coolant leak between the head and rocker housing on the Cummins engine.

Jerry was replacing some rotten wood on the NYC wood caboose built in 1915

Night at the Museum video.

Ray is positioning freight cars for the night photo shoot. There are some photos on the Fairmount A6 Blog.

Adjust Plymouth brakes

The Plymouth does not have air brakes, it has a hand brake operated by a hand wheel at the engineers right side. The brakes were never that great since we have been operating it. I noticed that when the hand brake was tight the shoes on the left side of the engine were not contacting the wheels. I checked with Steve and decided to adjust the left side brake. My first thought was to make the shoes reach farther, lengthen the adjuster link. The threads on the link were rusty and painted. I cleaned up the threads, reinserted the link and adjusted it. I soon saw the adjuster needed to be shortened. It works better now

More pictures of the volunteers who helped get the Whitcomb running.