Museum volunteer, Randy Bogucki, works on a little ditching work in the wet, but unfrozen ground. The dirt was loaded on to the push cart and taken up along the museum's demonstration railroad where it was used for fill.
The Construction Department took the opportunity to try to push start the museum's Caterpillar DW-15 pan. With the museum's Trojan loader providing the motive power, the pan was pushed up the west yard. The crew was successful in getting the old Cat to start for a few minutes, but more work will be needed to getting the pan running right. It was great to have a shot at it in January, however.
The R&GV Railroad Museum owns several Whiting Trackmobiles. These unique vehicles with an apparent personality conflict can run over the road on rubber tires to get into position and then lower the themselves on to the rail to become a small locomotive. On the opposite side of the #2 is the coupler which has a hydraulic ram that lifts on the coupler of the car its is coupled to. This transfers weight on to the Trackmobile so that it gets improved traction. #2 is fully serviceable.
