Located at Penitentiary
Glen
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The bridge framing that has been completed to this stage with two more roof trusses needing to be added, one at each end. The west end view of the covered bridge framing. |
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A view of the east end of the bridge looking toward Zip Junction. It rained this morning but Dave Foster trimmed branches as John Koontz, Ken Brooks and Steve Zaken carted off the cut branches. |
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Since it stopped raining the track crew started laying rail for the fourth track in to the Stanek Car Barn. Lew Fowler and Edith Hacker are digging a trench for the pipe that Bill Deptowicz carried from the tool shed. |
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Lew was chopping a root so the pipe could be set in the trench. John and Ken were bolting the track panels together. |
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George Woodling taps the end of the rail to tighten up the joint between panels. The crew is making good progress as they are nearing the doorway to the car storage barn. |
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After we set the pipe and buried it, Edith raked out the dirt to level it so we can start a retaining wall. George, Ken and John continue to work on the track and are within one track panel to the door. |
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When we went back to the station for a coffee break Judson Elliott was picking up cut limbs. Dick Schmidt brought his U25 he is scratch-building to check out the drive train and the progress so far. |
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Rick and Ken work at adding the extra ties at the track panel splices as Dick Clark sights down the track. Dick positioning the next switch panel for the fifth track that will go into the new storage barn. |
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A railroad tie was removed from the end of the yard for the grade wall but was too rotted to be of value. The train has just been unloaded of it's ballast buckets as George looks over the switch's control linkage which was moved to the other side for clearance. |
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With three ties in place, Edith jumps on the tie to settle it in the ground more but I think she is going to have to gain a whole lot of weight to make a difference. The remaining ties needed are in place and the wall is completed. |
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