Located at Penitentiary
Glen
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The saga for the yellow Park engine continues as comments about sitting back too far on the control car making it harder to use the shifter. The engine maintainance crew look over the problem. |
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The shifter is one problem and the long reach to adjust the engine rpm is another as John Koontz, Wayne Boron and Frank Smoley look things over. Frank Foti and Dick Clark look over the north track of the Pandora "Y" that needs leveling. |
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Bonnie Zaken fixes our lunches and today John is cooking on the grill as Frank and Dick watch. This is an old apple tree in amongst our steaming bays that is showing the ravages of time and rot. |
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The tree still has parts of it that are alive but it is just a matter of time. Members of the different work crews for todays work session start gathering by the station as lunch time approaches. |
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After lunch Frank chucks the socket driver bit in the drill with Tom Pappas and Dick Scott waiting to remove the bolts in the rail joiners. Tom and Frank work on the removal of the bolts that join the rail. |
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Frank and Dick watch as Tom bends down the aluminum rail clips that are holding the rail in gauge on the offset portion at the staggered ends of the track panels. The track panel has been lifted away and the crew is now removing the existing ballast to level the roadbed. |
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The guys are trying to remove the roadbed down enough that when replacing the track panel it won't be setting on a high spot of ballast. With the existing track panel back in place, Frank and Dick refasten the rail joiners. |
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Dick Scott and Frank got the ballast car out and loaded the car, backed into the releveled track panel and shoveled some ballast between the ties to keep from bending the rail. The rear chute gate had been pried open and the train is backing up. |
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Dick Clark and Dick Scott pry open the gates on both sides now as Frank backs the train down the track. Here you see Frank operating the ballast sweeper to finish up the task. |
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