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Glen
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The new spur track connecting at Filmor for Branch Line that the work crew got in. At the upper end we have to put in a small bridge to cross a gully that drains the woods. |
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Temporarily positioned the two switches to check alignment as one will be on the bridge. The fourteen and a half inch square cedar beams that will be used for the bridge abutments. |
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George Davidson brought his tractor to make easy work of moving the timber into position. The tractor proved to be a great back saver. |
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George took up another abutment beam as Dick Clark finished cutting all the way through the beams that were previously cut for us in two pieces. |
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Dick measures hole as George Woodling and Tom Reder look on. Dick, George Davidson and Tom watch as George makes the hole deeper for the abutment beam. |
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Contemplating if the second hole is deep enough. Dick checking with a level if the gravel fill is ready for the placement of the cedar abutment beam. |
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Edith Hacker works at filling the buckets along with Lou DeLembo and our newest junior member, Lou's grandson, Ian Fogelman. Dirt will be used for fill along the tracks. |
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Putting the wharf beams that we use for for bridge beams on the abutments and leveling the approaches to the bridge. |
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We probably could have saved a couple of hours on digging if we had just let Edith do it. The bridge with the backfilled abutments and the bridge beams in temporary position. |
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The switches are again positioned in their new location with one on the new bridge. |
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Mother Nature brought some high winds through the area last week and toppled this tree over at the end of our yard creating a natural arch. |
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Ted Nyland and Jerry Bell working in the switch shed to fill Dick Clarks order for switches this year. Ron Trenhaile was digging to bury cable from a remote switch stand for the turnout at Short. |
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The new switch to be cut in for the siding to the dirt pile was positioned on the exist track for location. The crew laid the sections of track on the ground as darkness starts to settle in. |
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Jonathan Shaffer, Dick Clark and Tom Reder discuss the tighting of the rail clips at the splices. Edith works at clearing the branches that have fallen. |
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The view toward the end of the yard showing the new siding for removing the dirt pile. The last load of ballast for the evening has arrived and will be offloaded. |
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Anyone have an idea what kind of animal of the woods may have left the embedded footprints into the wood plank while crossing this ditch? Sure must have been big and heavy! |
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