We would like to thank everyone who participated in our very successful Spring work and music party. In just a couple of days a huge amount of work was accomplished. We moved ahead on our office expansion, renovated the garden and greenhouse and began Spring planting, further restored our PFE reefer car by welding on replacement rungs for an exterior ladder that had been cut off years ago, build a burly new fence along the cabooses (using donated railroad ties and wood milled right on our land), stocked up the firewood supply, refurbished our stable of loaner bicycles, rebuilt and improved hiking trails, hauled out and crunched up dead brush and, using a rented “forestry masticator” unit, made fire breaks and cleared dead brush from several acres of land as part of our forestry restoration activities. We had a great crew of volunteers helping out, including with food donations and cooking up tasty meals for everyone. We’d also like to thank the musicians who put on the excellent boxcar music show on Saturday night including New Happiness, The Dirty Pluckers, Upside Drown, and St. Lorena.