Located at Penitentiary
Glen
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Dick Clark watches as Lou DeLembo scrutinizes one of the rail clips. The press with the 6" air cylinder is all set up and ready to go for mounting the alum. rail clips to the ties. |
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A close up of the air operated press owned by Dave Foster. Dick Clark and Edith Hacker are getting a load of ties so we can set things up in assembly line fashion. |
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Days before the guys put this track in on Branch Line beyond the new bridge. The wharf timbers were positioned for the switch on the bridge and spiked down. |
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The new Branch Line track curves around following the Park service road through our area above the Truss Bridge in the background. |
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Track on Branch Line laid up to the next bridge which was the plate girder bridge that George Davidson had built for him. The bridge setting on its cedar beam bridge abutments. |
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Dick putting gas in the work engine as Ray Delmore, George Davidson and Peter Petras take a break. |
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The members and riders will notice the new green signs that Ray Delmore routed out and erected at the named places. The snow toppled this tree next to the track behind the station. |
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Dave Foster, Peter and George finishing up the last 174 ties with the press. Ray doing switch maintainance up by the station. |
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The last carload of ties will be left on the car for the next work session. George and Dick are loading the train with tools so we can replace rail and clear the tracks for Sundays run. |
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Ron Trenhaile got the switch actuator installed on the turnout at Short. The damage to the rail from one of the toppled trees to the mainline at High Creek. |
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The mainline track with the steel rail had the most damage from the tree. Marty McGaun working to remove the damaged rail with the help of his son Patrick. |
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Both tracks were damaged from the falling tree when the branches broke off from the wet snow load of the past storm. |
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Even the young aspen trees toppled under the snow that were next to Patty's Rock Bridge. |
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The tree that lost its' branches in the snow storm. Patrick, behind Ron Trenhaile, Dick and Frank Foti fasten down the last piece of replacement rail. |
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The drainage pipe at the end of the yard that Don Spiedel installed. The ties we attached the rail clips to stacked and waiting for the crew at the next work session. |
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The rains came back so we headed for the switch shed. Jerry Bell talking to Frank with Ted Nyland behind Frank. |
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As we were preparing to leave the park the sun poked through the clouds and highlighted what Mother Nature can do. |
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And as the sun illuminated the landscape a rainbow began to form in a gigantic arc across the sky. |
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Now tell me Ladie, do you really think that there is a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow? If so, then it's behind the Ranger Station at Pennitentary Glen. |
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