Located at Penitentiary
Glen
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The plastic water supply to one of the steaming bays was leaking and Frank Foti dug it up and clears the mud from the small hole in the pipe. This is the pipe and you can see the hole where the water has been leaking, saturating the ground. |
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Frank starts to dig back further to expose more of the plastic supply line to cut it off. He exposed about another foot of pipe and you can see the plastic connects to copper pipe that extends above grade and is fastened to a post. |
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After slicing through the plastic pipe Ron Trenhaile joined him in taking the copper pipe fittings, that the plastic pipe fit onto, apart. After measuring for the length of pipe and a trip to the store, a piece of galvanized pipe was fitted onto the end of the copper pipe. |
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Ron tightens the pipe assembly that is held in the bench vice by the steaming bays. A view of the end of the plastic pipe that the galvanized pipe will have to be connected to. |
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Frank, using a board, gently taps the pipe assembly into the plastic pipe and already has a hose clamp ready to be positioned and tightened in place. A view that shows it pays if you can stand on your head and work trying to maintain your balance also. |
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A view from the other side of the steaming bay showing the repaired pipe, ready to fill and clean steam engines as required. All that is needed is for the pipe clamp to be refastened back to the post, holding the water pipe in place and the hole to be filled in. |
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This is of the track panels that we leveled last week all ballasted and tamped ready for traffic. John Koontz, Ken Brooks and Frank Foti stand around Dick Clark as he checks the track with a level as Tom Reder, behind them, tamps a section of track they just leveled. |
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Tom and Taren Hillger shovel ballast into our ballast spreading car while John Koontz goes for the club engine to pull it with. Ron watches as the train passes thru switches with the ballast sweeper on the rear as they head for the Branch Line to touch some of the ballast where they leveled track. |
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Ron getting ready to open a chute gate to drop some ballast above Bridge #14. Ron waits with the ballast sweeper as Frank removes the chute gate on this side before moving the train ahead, down to High Creek. |
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