Friday, July 22nd

In Phoenicia, Engineer was Al Schoessow with Walt Otto engineer in training. Conductor was Neil Isabelle and Russ Hallock car ttendant. Thom Johnson was ticket agent in Mt. Tremper.


Saturday, July 23rd

On Saturday, Dave Heick was engineer, Ray Farrell conductor, Neil Isabelle was brakeman, Bob McDonald and Kathy Isabelle were ticket agents at Phoenicia, and Dave Cenova was Ticket Agent at Mt. Tremper.

In Kingston. on Saturday, Al Schoessow was Engineer, Walt Otto was conductor, Mark Glaser was Brakeman. Tony Gambino was flagger and John Prestopino was trainman. Ticket agent was Jim Bruck.

In Phoenicia, George Peck, Neil Remsen and Derek Stapleton worked on the small washout at MP 23.8.

Also in Phoenicia, Al Johnson and Terry W. continued work on painting coach 701.


Sunday, July 24th

Sunday in Phoenicia, Engineer was John Patane, John Prestopino was conductor and Doug Senterman was brakeman. George Bain was ticket agent in Mt. Tremper.

George Peck, Earl Pardini, Mark Glaser, Neil Remsen and Al Schoessow delivered material to MP 23.3 and added it to fill in the washout there.

Paul Sternitzke led a crew consisting of myself and Bill Brosnan and we sickle bar cut out-of-guage in Kingston from Cornell Street to 209 and back.

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Monday, July 25th

George Peck and Earl Pardini led a crew that continued taking material to 23.3 to fill in our washout there. Several loads of base rock were delivered by Hy-rail dump truck and leveled on the south side of the track by the Gradall.The crew consisted of Mark Glaser, Al Schoessow, and Mike LaLonde.



Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR

Saturday, July 30th

George Peck will lead a crew at Phoenicia starting about 9am. He plans to continue work on 23.3.

The 701 crew plan to start at 10am.

Our Kingston summer Saturday service will continue beginning at 1pm.


Sunday, July 31st

George Peck will continue work on 23.3 starting at 9:30am at Phoenicia.

Cornell Street will be closed.


Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR

Friday, July 29th

On Friday in Phoenicia the engineer was Al Schoessow with John Watson engineer trainee. Conductor was Neil Isabelle and Ed Winstanley was brakeman trainee. Kathy Isabelle was car attendant with Neil Remsen as car attendant trainee. Bob McDonald was ticket agent in PA and Thom Johnson was ticket agent in Mt. Tremper.


Saturday, July 30th

Saturday Train Crew in Phoenicia was Dave Heick, Engineer, Ray Farrell, Conductor, Walt Otto, trainman, Neil Isabelle, car attendant on the 2nd & 3rd trains. Neil was also the ticket agent in Phooenicia. Dave Cenova was agent in Mt Trempter. Joe Logiudice was dispatcher.

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In Phoenicia, George Peck, Art Vogel, and George Bain worked on equipment in the Pheonicia yard.

Terry W. and Al Johnson worked on the 701.

On Saturday in Kingston, engineers were Earl Pardini and Al Schoessow. Conductor was John Prestopino. Mark Glaser was brakeman and Tony Gambino was flagger. Neil Remsen was flagger trainee. Mimi Pardini was car attendant. Ticket agent was Gina Kothe.


Sunday, July 31st

In Phoenicia on Sunday enginer was Al Schoessow and conductor was John Watson. Doug Senterman was brakeman and Russ Hallock car attendant trainee. Ticket agent in Phoenicia was Bob McDonald and Pat Smalley was ticket agent at Mt. Tremper.

George Peck and Earl Pardini led a crew hauling stone to MP 23.3. Their crew included Mark Glaser and Mike LaLonde.


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Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR

Saturday, August 6th

George Peck will lead a crew at Phoenicia starting about 9am. He plans to work on track and machinery in the yard.

The 701 crew plan to start at 10am.


Sunday, August 7th

George Peck and Earl Pardini will continue work on 23.3 starting at 9:30am at Phoenicia.

Cornell Street will be closed.


Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR

Thursday, August 4th

Earl Pardini and Al Schoessow made track repairs in Kingston at various points on the line.


Friday, August 5th

Train crew was Al Schoessow, engineer with Walt Otto engineer trainee. The conductor was John Prestopino ( and ticket agent in PA ). Ed Winstanley was car attendant. Thom Johnson was ticket agent in Mt. Tremper.


Saturday, August 6th

Train crew in Phoenicia was Dave Heick, engineer, Ray Farrell, conductor, Bill Kaba, and Gary Lowe was ticket agent in Mt. Tremper.

Train crew in Kingston was Earl Pardini engineer with an assist from Al Schoessow. Conductor was John Prestopino. Brakeman was Mark Glaser. Flagman was Tony Gambino and Richard Kerimoglu flag trainee. Ticket agent was Bruce Devorkin.

In Phoenicia, George Peck, Art Vogel, George Bain, and Neil Remsen worked on machinery repairs in the yard.

Also in Phoenicia, Terry W., Al Johnson and Tom Healy continued repairs on coach 701.


Sunday, August 7th

Train crew in Phoenicia was Al Schoessow, engineer, Walt Otto, conductor, with Bob McDonald trainman and ticket agent for Phoenicia. Peter Fluchere was ticket agent in Mt. Tremper.

Also on Sunday, Earl Pardini, George Peck and Mark Glaser removed part of the hillside at MP 23.3 in anticipation of relocating the track there:

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Monday, August 8th

Earl Pardini, Al Schoessow, and George Peck continued removing the hillside at MP 23.3, this time headed west.


Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR

Saturday, August 13th

George Peck will lead a crew at Phoenicia starting about 9am. He plans to work on track and machinery in the yard.

The 701 crew plan to start at 10am.


Sunday, August 14th

George Peck and Earl Pardini will continue work on 23.3 starting at 9:30am at Phoenicia.

Cornell Street will be closed.


Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR

Friday, August 12th

Train crew was Al Schoessow, engineer with John Watson engineer trainee. The conductor was John Prestopino; Ed Winstanley was car attendant. Bob McDonald was trainman and ticket agent in Phoenicia. Thom Johnson was ticket agent in Mt. Tremper.


Saturday, August 13th

On Saturday in Kingston, Engineer was Al Schoessow. Conductor was Walt Otto and trainman was John Prestopino. Ticket agent was Peter Fluchere.

Train crew in Phoenicia was John Patane, Jr., engineer, Ray Farrell, conductor, George Bain, Car Attendant. Neil Remsen was ticket agent in Phoenicia and Gary Lowe was ticket agent in Mt. Tremper.

In Phoenicia, George Peck and Paul Hintz tighted bolts east of the Route 28 crossing.

Also in Phoenicia, Terry W., Al Johnson, Bill Kaba and Neil Remsen continued repairs on coach 701.


Sunday, August 14th

Sunday in Phoenicia engineer was Al Schoessow with Bob McDonald as conductor and ticket agent. Russ Hallock was car attendant. Ticket agent in Mt. Tremper was Peter Fluchere.

Also on Sunday, Earl Pardini and George Peck took a new culvert pipe to MP 23.3.

Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR

Thursday, August 18th

Win Goodier and Mike LaLonde will lead a brush crew cutting the line from Phoenicia to Coldbrook. They will meet at 10am Cold Brook Station.


Friday, August 19th

Win Goodier and Paul Sternitzke will lead a brush crew to open up the track going to the railroad's quarry at MP 30.8. They will meet at Hummingbird Lane, off Herdman Road, at MP 29.7 at 9:30am.



Saturday, August 20th

George Peck will lead a crew at Phoenicia starting about 9am. He plans to work on track and machinery in the yard.

The 701 crew plan to start at 10am.


Sunday, August 21st

George Peck and Earl Pardini will continue work on 23.3 starting at 9:30am at Phoenicia.

Cornell Street will be closed.


Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR

Thursday, August 18th

Earl Pardini and Al Schoessow took materials to MP 23.3 and worked on the culverts there. Win Goodier and Mike LaLonde cut several large locust trees near the ROW between Cold Brook Station and MP 23.3.


Friday, August 19th

In Phoenicia, Al Schoessow was engineer with John Watson the engineer trainee. Neil Isabelle was conductor. Bob McDonald was trainman. Ed Winstanley and Russ Hallock were car attendants. Neil Remsen was ticket agent in Pa and Thom Johnson was ticket agent in Mt. Tremper.

Also on Friday, Mike LaLonde, Tom Healy, Paul Sternitzke and Win Goodier cut brush west of bridge street in Phoenicia. Chris Bigham, George Bain, Bill Brosnan and I cut brush at MP 30.2 to 30.4.

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The 701 crew consisted of Al Johnson, Terry W. and Neil Remsen. They installed all but 8 of the pieces of window trim and continued painting the seat pedestal parts.


Saturday, August 20th

In Kingston I have engineer was Earl Pardini. Ray Farrell was conductor. Mark Glaser was brakeman. Tony Gambino was flagger with Dave Hilliard in flagger training. Peter Fluchere was ticket agent.

Saturday in Phoenicia Al Schoessow was engineer, Walt Otto was conductor. Brakeman was Bill Kaba and car attendant was Rich Kerimoglu. Bruce Devorkin was ticket agent at Mt. Tremper.

George Peck, Art Vogel and George Bain worked on various equipment in the yard.

On the Saturday night Twilight Limited - Al Schoessow was engineer, Ray Farrell conductor, Bill Kaba was brakeman.


Sunday, August 21st

In Phoenicia, Dave Heick was engineer and John Prestopino was conductor. Bob McDonald was trainman and ticket agent with an assist from Neil Remsen. Tony Bocchino was car attendent. Peter Fluchere was ticket agent at Mt. Tremper.

At MP 23.3, Earl Pardini and George Peck led a crew consisting of Al Schoessow and Mark Glaser. They finished ditching and moving culverts for the new alignment.


Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR

Saturday, August 27th

George Peck will lead a crew at Phoenicia starting about 9am. He plans to work on track and machinery in the yard.

The 701 crew plan to start at 10am.


Sunday, August 28th

George Peck and Earl Pardini will continue work on 23.3 starting at 9:30am at Phoenicia.

Cornell Street will be closed.


Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR

Any word on how the CMRR fared through Irene?

From our local discussion group:

Channel 7 in NYC reports from Phoenicia and the CMRR tracks:

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=8336241&pid=8326848

Friday, August 26th

Friday in PA Engineer was Walt Otto. Conductor was Neil Isabelle. Car Attendants were Ed Winstanley and Kathy Isabelle. Kathy also was ticket agent.



Saturday, August 27th.

On Saturday in Kingston Al Schoessow was engineer, Earl Pardini was Conductor until 14:00, then Ray Farrell, Mark Glaser and Anthony Gambino were brakemen/flagmen and Dave Hillard was trainee, John Patane was trainman. Mimi Pardini was Car Attendent until 14:00.

In Phoenicia, Dave Heick was engineer; Walt Otto Conductor; Bill Kaba brakeman.

The 701 crew continued work on refurbishent of car 701. The crew consisted of Terry W., Al Johnson, Bill Kaba and John Pickett.

In Phoenicia, George Peck and Al Schoessow made preparations for hurricane Irene by moving all the equipment out of the yard, storing it at Mt. Tremper. They were assisted by Art Vogel and the train crew.


Sunday, August 28th

The railroad was closed due to Hurricane Irene.


Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR

Hurricane Irene hit Ulster County hard, with a state of emergency still in effect.

The CMRR was adversely affected on the "west" end, though the Kingston end was mostly untouched.

Principal losses were: Bridge Street and Phoenicia yard (scouring like the 2005 flood), Campground Curve where the rails are in the creek (like 1987), and finally the Boiceville Trestle, where three of four spans are now in the creek. I have posted many photos here:

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See also this ABC newscast sent by George Bain:

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=8335272

The track at MP 23.3 also sustained damage as well as track between MP 22.6 and 22.7 which suffered severe scouring.

The good news is that the track from Mt. Tremper to MP 23.3 has only minor damage and we can start running there very soon. Service is scheduled to resume Saturday, September 10th on this section. In Kingston, we are continuing to run as scheduled, including this Saturday.

In the meantime, we have lots of work to do to clean up the railroad.


Saturday, September 3rd

All hands call to Phoenicia yard for cleanup. There will be at least four crews working in the Phoenicia yard Saturday and all need help. First, there will be a group working to move fill around the yard. Second, a group will be gathering brush and debris around the yard and moving it to a central burn pile and burning it. A third group will be gathering loose OTM from bridge street to Farmer's Crossing. A fourth group will be reorganizing and stacking OTM by the trailer addition. George Peck has asked everyone to come at 9am.

The 701 crew will be working at Mt. Tremper on Saturday.


Sunday, September 4th

George Peck will lead a cleanup crew at Phoenicia starting at 9am. They will continue Saturday's work.


Monday, September 5th

No work crews scheduled.


Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR

Monday, August 29th

Earl Pardini, Mimi Pardini, John Prestopino, George Peck and I surveyed damage to the line in Phoenicia.


Tuesday, August 30th

George Bain, Ken Drao, Art Vogel and George Peck worked a full day on cleanup in the Phoenicia yard.


Wednesday, August 31st.

George Bain, Ken Drao, Art Vogel and George Peck worked a full day on cleanup in the Phoenicia yard. Earl Pardini, Steve Gollow and Al Schoessow moved the hi-rail dump truck and backhoe from Cold Brook to Andrew's lane.


Thursday, September 1st

George Bain, Ken Drao and Art Vogel worked a full day on cleanup in the Phoenicia yard. Al Schoessow, Mark Glaser and Steve Gollow fixed a minor washout at MP 24.5. Earl Pardini, George Peck and Ken Umhay pulled the rail out of the creek at Campground Curve.


Friday, September 2nd

Art Vogel, Dakin and Doris Morehouse continued cleanup at Phoenicia Station.

Paul Sternitzke, Bill Brosnan and I cut with the sickle bar both in-guage and out-of-guage in Kingston from Cornell Street to Washington Avenue.


Saturday, September 3rd.

In Kingston Al Schoessow was Engineer, Ray Farrell Conductor with Tony Gambino and Dave Hilliard flagers. John Prestopino was trainman. Ticket agent was Jim Bruck.

In Phoenicia, we had a big turnout for our cleanup crew. The crew consisted of Earl Pardini, Mimi Pardini, George Peck, Ernie Klopping, Pat Smalley, Paul Hintz, John Patane, Steve Gollow, Al Johnson, Art and Karin Vogel, Daikin and Doris Morehouse, George Bain, Ken Drao, Tom Healy, Mark Glaser, Dave Heick, Neil Isabelle, Kathy Isabelle, John Pickett, Otto Vondrak and myself.. The ESRM trailer was moved back to its original location, and the giant hole by the station partially filled. Debris from around the yard was collected and burned. OTM was picked up and sorted.

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In Shokan, Paul Sternitzke and Bill Brosnan cleared trees from the line from Shokan to MP 20.5, and walked to the Boiceville Trestle. They found only small damage at Butternut Cove, and no other damage except many, many fallen trees up to the damaged Boiceville Trestle.


Sunday, September 4th

In West Hurley, Paul Sternitzke, Bruce Devorkin and Todd Syska cleared many, many trees from the line between MP 7 and MP 12. No further damage from Hurricane Irene was found.

In Phoenicia, George Peck continued cleanup in the Phoenicia yard helped by Walt Otto and Al Schoessow.


Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR