Lake Shore Live Steamers.com

Located at

Penitentiary Glen
8668 Kirtland-Chardon Rd
Kirtland, Ohio 44094

Edith Hacker cleaning up the cinders and flue soot from under the elevated steaming bays. With the transit inside the Stanek Car Storage Shed, Dave Foster adjusts the sight rod to obtain the beep for the elevation.

Dave checking the top of the railroad ties so the elevation will be below the carriage of our new car lift. While that was going on Rick Nagy and Dick Clark were leveling the track in Horrendous.

Wally Pausch digs some of the excess gravel to set this tie lower as Frank Foti and Dave watch the progress. Frank holds one set of tie tongs and the other is in front of Dave that we used in muscling the ties to the lift area and placing them.

Dave and Wally taking a breather from digging the shallow pit in the foreground so we can place more ties. Dave pointing out to Frank where the drain goes under the track at the edge of our lift pit.

Lew Fowler takes a break after we placed the ties on the right hand side of the lift pit, next we have to check the elevation of the ties. Rick brought a load of stone with the work train and we spread it around.

Another trainload of stone was delivered and we spread it around and I think we are done for now. A view at the west end with the ties spiked down in place with lengths of rebar through drilled holes and backfilled with gravel to grade.

The The east side of the lift pit and the way we backfilled around the ties and under the carriage rails for the car lift. Lew and Judson Elliott picking up our tools and we are off to the station for a coffee break.

It didn't take long after we got to the station before the skies opened up and the rain just poured. A view looking toward the parking lot from the station.

The rain was coming down harder so there was nothing to do but wait it out. Water, water everywhere as it came down so fast it wasn't draining off the new brick pavers fast enough.

About an hour later Karl Losely showed up and started digging out the soil to create a swale drain away from the low point of the pavers. Jerry Bell lent a helping hand to remove the dirt.