Re: Yesterday at the CRRM, part 2

Hi George

Believe it or not,not, January historically has been the driest month of the year! Of course, what is going on up on the Continental Divide is something else. February and March are an entirely different matter down on teh flatlands, and the bulk of our precipitation comes in the February-May period. (This past November and December were entertaining, but sun and wind have taken all that snow away). The dry conditions come with a penalty, however--here in Boulder this past Wednesday evening we had wind gusts as high as 94 m.p.h., and Thursday evening it was 104 m.p.h. Didn't get much sleep those nights! It blows or it snows!

The nattily-dressed gentleman overseeing yesterday's track work is Gus (last name?), who is one of the museum's two backhoe specialists; he does not post to this forum, and as far as I know he doesn't even follow it. The gentleman in the pattered shirt whose face is not in view is Art Mitchell, general factotum of the track crew and a BNSF maintenance-of-way foreman from since before dirt was invented. All that the the present team of museum track volunteers know came from Art--and Art builds to Class I standards. Me? I avoid track work like the plague!

Mike