Located at Penitentiary
Glen
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Dave Cryor fuels up the lawnmower in preparation for cutting the grass around the station that the riding mower can't get at. Meanwhile, Dave Hird is busy working on the switches again, maintaining them by lubricating and checking the throw and gauge. |
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Today's work session will be to put in this straight section between the two switches we cut in, down by the Truss Bridge on the mainline. Tom Reder starts shoveling out the existing ballast and that's Dick Clark standing behind him as we start to prepare the right-a-way for the crossover track between the two switches. |
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Dick rests from using the maddock while Tom shovels out the loose gravel between the two mainline tracks. After digging out the ballast between the existing ties, Dick gets ready to see if he can slip the track panel ties in between the existing mainline ties. |
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Tom holds the rail steady as Dick cuts it with a electric powered bandsaw powered by the generator on a gondola behind Dick. In this picture Dick Clark screws down the rail to the tie that Tom holds in place with the tie lifter. |
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Work is shaping up as the rail has the joiner clips on it and now they're adding the missing ties between the new and existing panels. Tom looks over the work that he helped with as the rail is all in, it just needs to be ballasted at this point. |
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With the ballast set in place, the track leveled and tamped, Lew Fowler and Tom take a breather while holding on to their tamping rods. A view from the Park Access Road crossing looking towards the Truss Bridge and the crossover track. |
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As Dick runs the train, Tom helps out with pushing the ballast out the open chute gate. Lew watches as Dick opens the chute gate on their side as Tom watches the progress. |
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Instead of using the powered sweeper we just used the manual broom on the track to level the ballast to top of tie height. The finished crossover using a modified right hand switch which was converted to a wye to nicely do the job. |
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