1. Milk transfer from the office trailer: Each train day, we need to move the amount of chocolate milk needed that night from our cold office trailer into the museum for the chefs to heat up for hot chocolate. That needs to be done before 1 pm.

2. Will Call pick up: each train day, someone needs to go to Merrill Auditorium to pick up the tickets that people will be picking up for the performance that day, and to pick up whatever tickets have not been sold, so that they can be sold at the door.

3. Will Call table each train day at Ocean Gateway/Polar Express Depot train station: From 2:30 to the last train, usually 7:45, someone to help sell remaining tickets and deliver those already purchased being picked up the night of the "performance."

4. Telephone answering at the museum from 2 to 5 pm on train days. Each of our performance days, which are the ones identified in the spreadsheet, there are often a lot of anxious customers calling about their tickets or directions on how to get here, etc. Having a volunteer answering questions is a huge help to the staff with other pressing duties. And we train and have written info.

5. Refueling & Lighting Kero-San heaters-North Pole cars-train days: we have two coaches that the Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine (CMTM) has decorated as a North Pole outpost. They are in the yard at night, and in the afternoon are pulled out to their position at their outpost (by the old railroad swing bridge near I-295/Back Cove and the B&M Beans factory). One of them has a Kero-San heater in it to keep Santa and his elves warm while they wait for the Polar Express to arrive. That heater needs to be fueled and lit each afternoon for its night duties from 3-9 pm.

6. Trail lights turned on and off on train days. We have decorations along the Eastern Promenade Trail that have to be turned on each afternoon before the first train at 4 and turned off at night.

7.Sound man on every train: Fraser Jones (volunteer, owner of Independent Audio) will train. We have two completely separate and sophisticated sound systems: one that goes through the entire train, for the music; one for each of the coaches so that the actors, with mics, can act out their parts and be heard over the noise of the creaking train and the car full of kids and adults. That system needs to have batteries changed out once a night, be checked out for good operations, etc. In addition to the training, Fraser Jones is available every night in the case of major failure, but the maintenance and management of the two systems need one person solely each night.

8. Cutter Street Flagger: Almost out to the North Pole outpost at the bridge, the railroad crosses Cutter Street, which comes down off the Eastern Promenade to the boat launch and East End Beach area. We need someone posted there, probably in a car so they can stay warm, to get out and physically flag the crossing when the train is coming, so that the train doesn't have to slow down for safety reasons. There is a slight rise just before the crossing that can cause the engine wheels to spin out in icy, snowy weather if it slows down in the least. Mind you, we are only going 6-8 mph, but the momentum of all that weight carries you safely through, as long as you don't have to slow down. And we are pulling a longer-than-usual train with one light engine.

9. Platform Coordinator at OG/Hancock Street: we need one person each night who can coordinate the loading and unloading of as many as 250 passengers at the Ocean Gateway / Polar Express Depot Train Station Platform for each of four trains.

10. PE Gift Shop attendant at OG/Train Station: At Ocean Gateway / Polar Express Depot Train Station, we have a gift shop with Polar Express and some train museum gifts for sale. We need someone who can help our regular staff and customers.

11. Bucket loader operator: Just as it sounds, but this job requires special training. I have listed all the qualified senior volunteers here at the railroad in the order in which we will call them. This is only in snow and weather emergencies, so these people are on a special call list.

12. Snowplow / Engine #1 operator: This is in the same category as above.

13. Flangeway cleaners: this is not so specialized. The flangeways, the cracks next to the rails where they cross streets, need to be cleared of ice and sand and salt that may have been spread during the day by the City's snow-clearing. We provide the tools for this.

14. 3 Snow shovellers: Pretty basic-strong backs and arms to shovel should we have a snow storm. Our engine house, our milk-storage trailer, the switch stands on the track (there are about 5) and