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Connecticut Electric Railway News Connecticut Electric Railway News Volume 70 Issue 1 Incorporated 1940 Spring 2012 CABIN FEVER DAY HOSTED BY CTM THIS YEAR On February 18th, 2012, the Connecticut Trolley Museum hosted Cabin Fever Day. This day was supposed to be hosted by Shore Line Trolley Museum, but due to the damage that occurred during Hurricane Irene, they requested that we host it this year, which we were happy to do. Cabin Fever Day is an event that is hosted by a different museum each year. It is attended by volunteers from various trolley museums east of the Mississippi River such as Baltimore Streetcar Museum, Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, Rockhill Trolley Museum, and others. Visitors began to arrive midday on Friday for the informal Car 355 Boarding for Another Trip on Cabin Fever Day Photo by Frank Rossano gathering. Tours were given of the grounds and the car shop. A On Saturday, visitors got the chance at the controls of our PCC expert from another museum was able to look at car cars, with a qualified CTM motorman alongside them. 451 (Illinois Terminal PCC car) with our shop personnel and explained how to fix it. For lunch, we had sandwiches from Blimpie and for dinner, Sofia’s Restaurant catered for us. After dinner, trips were made on car 4 under the Tunnel of Lights showing members of other museums a bit of our Winterfest event. Everyone who visited enjoyed themselves. We all look forward to the Cabin Fever Event next year! Car 4 Returning to North Road on Cabin Fever Day Photo by Frank Rossano -Tim Lesniak, Corporate Secretary SECOND BREAK-IN IN LESS THAN A YEAR On February 18th, volunteers found three trolley cars Southern box motor 101. Now, all three will require dating back to 1905 stripped of their copper and brass extensive work before they can be returned to operation components. Discovered during Cabin Fever Day, for museum patrons to enjoy. Parts were also missing damage is estimated to be in the tens of thousands of from Chicago Elevated car 4436 which was already dollars. Thieves were able to peel back a section of the partially disassembled. metal siding on Woods Barn to gain access. Once inside, crowbars were used to pry brass pieces off of the In addition, the lock was cut on a track Section House to ceilings, windows, and exterior of these wooden cars gain access; however, it does not appear that any track doing extensive damage to the woodwork. Also, wiring materials were stolen. was cut and some of the control gear was stripped out of A fund has been set up for donations for costs associated the cars. The three cars that were stripped include with the break-in. Connecticut Company car 1326 (Birthday Car), Connecticut Company car 840, and Centerville Albia & -Tim Lesniak, Corporate Secretary Page 2 of 10 WINE & BEER TASTING Board of Directors Everyone mark your calendars: Friday, May 11 5pm- Term Expiration 8pm. We are in the early stages of planning a HUGE John Arel 2012 fundraiser to help with the money needed to repair the Mike Caputo 2012 damaged cars from the latest break in and to continue Justin Chasse 2012 with the upgrade to our security system. For the few Ted Coppola 2012 dollars they will net from a scrap dealer, they not only Xian Clere 2013 took original items that may never be able to be replaced James Milller 2013 Galen Semprebon 2013 but cost the museum hours and hours of work to try get these cars back in service. All the labor is done by Stephen Taylor 2013 Dorothy Allen 2014 volunteers who give their heart and soul to protect and Tim Lesniak 2014 restore every trolley on the grounds. Joe’s Fine Wine Marilyn Rodriguez 2014 and Spirits of East Windsor is helping plan a huge Fred Stroiney 2014 Wine/Beer Tasting to take place right at the museum. More details will be forthcoming and of course we will Officers need a lot of help to make this the success we hope for. Chairman of the Board Fred Stroiney Stay tuned! Vice Chairman James Miller President Galen Semprebon -Carol Zenczak, Manager Vice President Ted Coppola Corporate Secretary Tim Lesniak (Please contact the office if you wish to help out at this Treasurer Stephen Taylor event or for more information.) Department Managers Track Superintendent Xian Clere SC&ET Superintendent John Arel Chief Motorman Sheila Numrych Shop Foreman John Pelletier Safety and Security Bert Johanson Volunteer Coordinator Larry Lunden Membership Secretary John Carter Event Coordinator Morgan von Eisengrein Newsletter Editor Tim Lesniak Webmaster Matt Cosgro Gift Shop & Office Manager Carol Zenczak Mission Statement The Mission of the Connecticut Electric Railway Thank You for Coming – Cabin Fever Day Association is to tell the story of electric railway (L-R) Jeff Hackner, President – Branford Electric Railway Assoc; technology and its impact on society, through the Scott Becker, Executive Director – Pennsylvania Trolley Museum; interpretation, preservation, restoration and operation of Galen Semprebon, President – Connecticut Electric Railway Assoc an electric railway. Photo by Frank Rossano Contact Information Connecticut Electric Railway Association 58 North Road, PO Box 360 East Windsor, CT 06088 Thank you to WGBY for supporting the museum in the Telephone: 860-627-6540 2011 Season. Find out how your business can help Email: [email protected] support the museum during the 2012 Season. Contact Website: www.ct-trolley.org [email protected]. Page 3 of 10 PRESIDENT’S CORNER 2012 has started as truly an interesting year. We truck removed. One motor has been rehabilitated and re- unfortunately have had a setback as many of you are installed, and work is progressing on the second motor. already aware of. A theft has occurred where brass and Once this truck is complete, we have one motor on the bronze fittings were stolen off a number of the trolley cars other truck to rehab. Work inside the car includes wiring stored in Woods Barn along with damage to electrical work on the heaters, floor work to address the buckling components on the cars. We luckily have already been floor issue, and other mechanical work to door motors able to scrounge and find replacements for many of the etc. to address air leaks and other issues. We look parts stolen, and there should be no long term impacts forward to both of these cars returning to service in 2012. from this most unfortunate situation. I am looking forward to making additional progress on a On the positive side, the outpouring of support from the number of fronts in 2012. community at large and the museum community has been very uplifting. We have been in contact with our In 2011, we reconstructed the front vestibule on the state representatives to try to garner some attention to Visitor Center, and did some work on the roof to make it the copper theft epidemic at large, and this has provided watertight. We are proceeding with discussions to get a a wake-up call to us as to the vulnerability of the contractor involved to make some additional collection and our need to expand our efforts to protect it. improvements to the building to address the bird problem and complete some other needed improvements to the The museum has made some significant progress during building. the winter close down season, including work inside the Visitor Center to increase our exhibits, and work in the We have been working behind the scenes on moving the shop on the cars. repair of the Isle of Safety forward. A lot of research and discussions with Contractors and Architects along with Winterfest was stored away with un-precedent speed this historical people from throughout the Hartford region has off-season, which allowed work to progress inside the occurred. We plan in the next few weeks of solidifying visitor center. Work inside the Visitor Center included the approach, so keep tuned for more information on this. cleaning of cars, painting the floor in 1201, additional paint striping on 2056, additional priming on 0309, One area that we want to continue to concentrate on is installation of lights in a number of cars for display, and the exhibits inside the Visitor Center. The more other work. Work has started on constructing a viewing information and interest that we can generate from the and access platform that will provide easy access to 10 exhibits, the better our visitor experience will be, and the and the single truck caboose, and allow viewing of the more visitors we will have coming to the museum. Both inside of the Ponemah. Additional exhibits are planned Tim Lesniak and I have some ideas on what we would for the Visitor Center also. This will provide new exhibits like to do for exhibits. If anyone has some time, either one of us can help get you working on the exhibits. for our returning guests to enjoy, and hopefully help attract even more visitors. As always, there are many projects that we would like to Work in the shop included work on car 16 including see move forward in 2012. The main restraint to moving replacement of the vestibule floor on one end, repairs of these projects forward is time. If you have some time to roof on one end, and other work. Work on the type 5 give, and would like to get involved, please contact Carol Zenczak in the office. She can help get you in contact continues. The car at this time is jacked up with one with a Department head, or someone to help get you involved. Even a few hours a month can make a big Xian Clere & Camilo difference in helping to move some of the projects Santiago Boarding forward.
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