Lake Shore Live Steamers.com

Located at

Penitentiary Glen
8668 Kirtland-Chardon Rd
Kirtland, Ohio 44094

The crew working on the pavers got the fines in place and pretty well screeded out betwen the forms. With the forms in place you can see how much we will have to lower the track in front of the station.

All the form boards are in place with the slope that the pavers will be at when placed and tamped. The crew showed up last Saturday, finished digging the holes, mixed concrete and supported the rails for the new lift and anchored them in the concrete so now we dig between the rails.

Steve Zaken was helping with the wheelborrow brigade and Dave Foster was helping to load them. Dave and John Koontz deciding where to dump the dirt.

And then the rains came and really wet things down and turned our digging operation into a mud hole. Edith Hacker using the pick to loosen up the hard packed dirt as Lew takes a breather.

John Koontz is dumping the dirt at the end of the stub yard to expedite the unloading of the dirt away from our digging area. It rained again and the misty fog settled in over the area.

John, Steve, Ken Vendlinger and Dave take a breather as Edith jumps back in the mud and starts swinging the pick again with Lew watching. You can see the mud hole the rain has turned this into.

Went back to the station to get something to drink and Karl had just pulled in with a trailer and two stacks of brick pavers. Back at the digging site Dave unloaded the coil of plastic drain pipe and Lew is straightening it out.

Dave digs around the end of the lift guide rail for the drain pipe to clear. Ken and Lew dig for a while in the mud.

Ken Brooks showed up after work and pitched in digging the trench in the middle with Bill for a run of drainge pipe there. John waits for another load of dirt as Dave cuts the pipe for the elbow at the end of the first run.

The second run of pipe is in the trench and buried except at the end where we have to connect the discharge end of the tee with that section of pipe showing. Another view showing the arrangement we had in mind.

Edith watching Ken dig the trench for the discharge pipe that will cross under the adjacent track. Roger Harnish and Dick Mackey confer on the best approach for cutting the paver to fit against the station foundation.

Dee Harkleroad was helping lay the pavers in place and Don Speidel was bringing the pavers from the trailer to the station in a wheelborrow. Karl placing the pavers in place in front of the doorway to the station.

You can see in this view how some of the pavers had to be cut to conform to the angled side of the station wall. Dick and John watch Roger fit the pavers as Karl gets ready to remove the form board to continue the laying of the pavers.