Located at Penitentiary
Glen
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We removed a switch that we had used for the old Branch Line at Hilton and George Woodling and Frank Foti are raking out the old ballast. Dick Clark has just finished connecting the track panels together. |
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Dick laying down on the job again...he says he is sighting down the track. With the switch loaded on the work train our newest member is running the train....wait a minute that's Frank Foti I didn't recognize him without all that hair. |
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Dave Foster doing some measuring in our new storage barn for the car support racks. Wally Pausch clamping the vertical steel to the bottom of the roof truss as the supports in the center are put in place. |
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Dave using the cutoff wheel to trim a center support frame so it will clear the roll-up door. Wally adding the clamping power to keep the frame from moving as Dave cuts through the steel. |
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Meanwhile the guys on the track crewing are figuring out the best position for relocating the switch near East Wind. Ted Nyland was checking out our progress on the racks as Dave was welding a "rail section". |
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The center frames with the welded up sections of "track" just laying up on their respective elevation. Dave welding up a tie plate across the end of a pair of angle rails. |
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Without the camera flash the welding process looks a bit more dramatic. The relocated switch is in the foreground and the guys have reworked the path of existing rail, you can see rail has been removed on the adjacent track near the frog of the switch just installed. |
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You can see the track just lying in place which has been re-routed to this side of the tree. Dick and Joe Banzer "man" the rail bender to get the proper curve to the rail which will connect into the switch on the main line. |
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Clayton Davidson is behind Dick Clark who's waiting for the rail end to be filed. With the rails joined, ballasted and leveled, it makes for a nice sweeping curve from the switch. |
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George is complaining that Bob Beardslee is trying to steal his thunder after most of the work was done before Bob showed up. The line approximates the path of the new track to the main line from the relocated switch. |
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