On September 24th, Gary Ludwig continued to renew the woodwork in the passenger agent’s office while Bob Reynders and Jim Slominski painted the coal chute doors just outside of the baggage room. Other housekeeping duties continued every work day, including cutting the grass, pulling weeds, planting flowers, watering plants, disposing of trash, answering phone calls and taking visitors on tour.
Thanks go out to all of the Orchard Park crew for their tireless efforts to maintain and upgrade one of Western New York’s finest historical buildings. The depot crew welcomed new crew member Duane Warchocki, who has been helping with this restoration and maintenance of the station on Saturdays |
"Holiday in the Park 2008"
Once again, the Society’s Orchard Park Depot was the center for the Village of Orchard Park’s annual Christmas celebration, “Holiday in the Park”. On Wednesday, December 3rd, the Orchard Park Depot crew (Bob Reynders, Jim Slominski, Roger Smith, Gary Ludwig and Bob Snyder) put together the wiring for the activities at the Depot. Our Chief Electrician, Bob Reynders, assisted by Jim Slominski, did the ladder work for the electrical connections, while Bob, Roger and Gary attended to the other Depot preparations, including setting up a G-scale train under the Depot Christmas tree.
Things got under way on Saturday, the 6th, at 4 PM with the decoration of the trees on the Depot grounds, in anticipation of a visit from Santa Claus. Santa rode in on a sleigh around 5 pm and stayed at the Depot listening to the Christmas wishes of all the boys and girls, until 7 PM. Many activities took place in and around the Depot all evening. There were trees to be decorated, a snowman contest, a hill of snow to play on, log fires, a hay ride wagon pulled by a team of horses, food at the DPW building and the annual visit of the Orchard Park Chorus. At times, it was standing room only in the Depot. Another record crowd helped to make the season bright, and we heard from Santa as he rode out of sight, “Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good Night!"
LATE BREAKING NEWS: The Village of Orchard Park has agreed to donate $1000.00 toward the interior lighting of the Orchard Park Depot.

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