Back at the Museum and back to the routine work!

It is Tuesday so I was back at the Rocks By Rail Museum. I was last there on Easter Sunday, the first open day of the 2023 season and it was a great day. Yesterday with the rain I did think it might not be a good day for attendance but apparently it was! So all in all a good start to the year but the routine work to keep the site going continues and I was out with the mower again. Although I cut he grass only a week ago it had grown about two inches - it must be all that rain!

Strangely, the drag line was operating today. Not for the delight of visitors, although they would no doubt have been interested to see it in action on an otherwise non-operational day, but as part of a YouTube production. Stay tuned for details about that once it is released!

The YouTube creator getting his filming equipment ready!

Meanwhile steam loco 1391 needed its tubes and fire box cleared out so it was out in the open with Jean and Betty the Sentinels. 

George, who will need a good clean up before being allowed in back home, clearing some of the ash that came out of the loco - it fills potholes well!

Meanwhile in the restoration shed work to smarten up the Shark brake van continues. As you can see it is really showing the ravages of living outside.

One of the bonuses of being a volunteer is that you can see things most people never get to see like the brake gear on the chassis. Maybe not everyone's cup of tea but it interests me!