Lake Shore Live Steamers.com

Located at

Penitentiary Glen
8668 Kirtland-Chardon Rd
Kirtland, Ohio 44094

Gee, the whistle post is right where we left it and Frank indicates where we are going to dig a hole for its relocation. After the hole got dug, but not quite as deep as it was before, it was time to move the post to its new location.

Ken Brooks and Dave Cryor on the left with Matthew and Rick on the right, watch as Frank Foti tips the post to an upright position in the hole. Well it's in the hole and you can see how much shallower we put it.

Frank holds the post upright in its tentative position as Matthew and Ken put stones around the base in the bottom of the whole. The whistle post is situated in its new position backfilled and tamped to do its job for a good many more years.

All that's needed now is for the post to be repainted for the portion that's exposed above ground. The crew headed to the station for a break and I took a picture of what the siding track panels with our relocated whistle post looks like.

Frank Smoley is getting the riding tractor out to cut grass as Dave Cryor heads off with the push lawnmower to cut around the steaming bay area and station. After the break the crew started in laying another track panel and here Rick Nagy taps the end of the rail to tighten up the joint.

John Koontz and Frank check out the gap in the rail as our track master Dick Clark overseas at all. Dave Hird, who is on the switch committee, does his inspections with lubricating and adjusting that may be required of each switch.

Frank had a get off the riding tractor and pick up some of the branches that fell in the yard behind the station. Then it was back on the tractor and cutting the main grass area behind the station.

A view looking down the mainline past Gooseneck towards where the guys are working laying the track panels for the siding. Frank setting the screws for the fill-in ties between the two panels that were recently joined as Matthew started spreading ballast.

Rick Nagy and Tom Reder wait for Frank to dump another load of ballast on the track. Frank tilts the wheelbarrow, as Matthew watches, to fill in the areas in the track that were a little light on ballast.

Matthew sweeps down the track to level the ballast to the top of the ties as Tom smooths out the edges beyond the ends of the ties with a shovel. Well the siding is all ballasted except for the very end.

Went over by Horrendous to see how Jerry Bell, Ron Malinowski and Dave Woldman placed a couple sections of track that's headed for a connection to the Branch Line. A view from the mainline looking towards the station at our new siding that has been barricaded until the switch is adjusted.