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Glen
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Dave Mroczynski, Tom Pappas and George Metts are going to lift and level the Orchard Yard track behind the station today. The wooden ties that we had spaced underneath the track are rotting and as this is bar stock rail welded to steel bar stock ties, the track eventually settles in to the dirt/ballast with age. |
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Dave using a prybar to lift the steel track out of the dirt/ballast as Tom using a prybar on the opposite side helps with the lift as George looks on. You can see in this close-up that the wooden ties aren't fastened to the steel rail and remain embedded in the soil. |
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Frank Smoley and Lew Fowler watch as Chris Cooper and Ted Nyland build a switch in our Switch Shed. Chris and Ted build the switch up piece by piece with only the points prefabricated. |
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Dave stands on the prybar to hold the track up as Tom and Dave Hird put new ties under the track after removing the old ones with Dick Clark in the background overseeing their progress. A view from another angle as they replace the wooden ties under the steel fabricated track which was the original 3 gauge(3 1/2", 4 3/4" and 7 1/2" gauge) track that the club started with. |
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Tom placing new ties in between the steel ties that's welded to the existing rail as the work continues. Dave working opposite Tom places the new wooden tie under the track that is still being held above the existing ballast. |
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I wonder how long Dave can stand on one foot?, at least he's being balanced by the shovel but that bar is probably making his foot sore by now. Dave adding a few more ties in the area of the frog of the switch. This switch shuttles the train traffic back out onto the mainline from behind the station's Orchard Yard. |
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Just a few more ties and the guys will start re-ballasting the track with the stone in the wheelbarrow. Out at Zip Junction I found Rick Nagy doing leaf blowing, clearing the track of leaves and twigs so that our upcoming run the tracks will be clear. |
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