A Quick Trip out to the Tracks.

Sunday Morning of Labor Day Weekend I hit the road before the Sun had even thought of cresting the horizon. It met me as I crested the hill into Yucca Valley, a nice view dirty window and all. John Griffin met me at the gate and we unloaded some flat cars for his use in the ongoing maintenance of the facility. He had spent the warmer parts of Summer keeping the trees and buildings up to his high standards. With the days cooling off he has some bigger outdoors type projects up his sleeve. Hence the need for flat cars to carry the goods.

 

First order of business was to bring the Joshua Tree number 7 up to the loading area. The batteries have seen better days and some improvements are in line with 7's maintenance division, hence a trip down the hill for things to get looked at.                                                                                             

The flat cars got a trip down the hill shepherded by the trusty Freight Motor.

 

A short visit and it was off down the hill and up the other side of the basin to the Mesa to drop off another load of wood to be split at our off site lumber facility. A good member down in the El Cajon area had a huge tree/trees cut down on his property and donated us the wood to keep things warm around the picnic shelter for a few years. We have to haul it, and we have made many trips to the McPheeters Lumber Mill with numerous loads to be split some time soon.

A bite to eat at C&S Coffee Shop and back down the hill. Made it home before Noon with plenty of time for a much needed nap. Just because you haven't seen any life on the blog lately doesn't mean things are not happening. I'll work on better updates in the future.
New calendar under the 7 1/2" division for your planning purposes. As usual, any questions give me an email at ratsgarage@yahoo.com. Brian