It was a hot day at the museum (the high was around 95°F). Luckily, I spent most of the day inside one of the Montreal Commuter Cars as a car attendant. The Railfest went pretty well — attendance seemed reasonable, although the place wasn’t packed. There were some glitches, as might be expected with a new setup. They had Thomas photo opportunties at the members crossing, which meant when Thomas was there you were shunted off on a poor dirt bypass just S of Carhouse 4 trackage, crossing the rails on ballast right infront of the carhouse, and then back up to member’s parking. The problem is: the CAP Cadets weren’t directing folks there. There was also confusion on getting car attendance assignments — you went to the supervisor, who sent you to dispatch, who sent you back to the supervisor. I prefered the old system of just assigning the cars outright. Perhaps next spring…
Other than that, it was a quick in and out, because (being Pesach) I brought my own food. A number of folks asked about the Matzah :-). But things ran on schedule, there were no major mishaps, the Steam Train ran all day (I was on the ATSF 98), so it was a fun (but tiring) day.
