Located at Penitentiary
Glen
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Wayne Boron works on the throttle cable to the engine on the GP38 as it has tightened up again and not as loose as he had it before. As Wayne watches, Frank Smoley and Lew Fowler put the cowling back up on top of the chassis. |
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Frank runs the GP38 up on our transfer lift to check the foot pegs that the guys keep forgetting to retract when they put the engine away and bend them. We use a long bolt that is drilled for a set screw that rides in a pipe with a slot in it and here you can see them tightening up the cap screw. |
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Dick Clark used our track sweeper to level the ballast by Hemlock. A view looking down the mainline at Hemlock back towards the station. |
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Paul Emch and Rick Nagy deciding where to locate the seat on our control car for our newly acquired engine. On the Branch Line between Filmor and High Creek, Dick Clark, Rick Nagy and John Koontz decide where to locate the switch that'll bring traffic from Gillette on to the Branch Line. |
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After the marking the rails the crew watches as Dick cuts the aluminum rail with the battery-powered DeWalt saw. Time for a rest as the crew takes a breather from cutting the rail for the newly located switch. |
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The existing rail and ties have been removed and the ballast scraped down for the location of the new switch. The switch placed in the depression of the existing ballast as John works on the clips to slip on the ends of the rail to join the panels together. |
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The end of the switch had an unusually long rail extending from switch points and we will have to cut a rail to fill the gap between the end of the rail and panel of the existing track. Here John hammers the slip-on rail splice clip into position. |
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Ken Brooks stopped by to check out how our progress was was going and saw that the switch is joined to the existing rail on the Branch Line. This switch had the the point throw to the right-hand side and will have to be changed over to the left hand side. |
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The crew shoveled in ballast between the ties to get some support and lift the switch up to the proper elevation and the switch throw was changed over to the left side. The switch all leveled and ballasted and that will be it for today. |
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