Thursday, May 14, 2009

The Blue Bird returns to Waterville!



Sorry for the delay, but I have still been busy as of late...
After a long and arduous struggle taking almost six months of time and the countless efforts of over a dozen people, the TLEW's Blue Bird passenger train arrived at the Waterville station for the first time in years a mere 45 minutes behind schedule!
My previous post gave details of the work needed on 5109. In addition to this close to a mile of track needed repairs. Though most of this work was accomplished in the last two months of our maintenance seasonwe still made opening day!
Below is a (hopefully) once in a lifetime photograph of 5109's prime mover (engine), with any luck the scale of repairs requiring all of the doors to be removed won't be nessasary again!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

So cool. Hope it doesn't break down any time soon! Good job!