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Glen
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Dave Foster brought his pneumatic press and George Davidson and George Woodling started attaching the rail clips to the ties. Dave setting the clips with the nails into the die as George holds a tie. |
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George places the tie in position and has the foot control to operate the press. Rick Nagy loading the finished ties with clips into the gon. |
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The gons with the finished ties stacked and ready to be transported to the storage area. The switch in the foreground was replaced at the last work session because the original needed some TLC. |
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Another view of the sweeping curve and how it now looks without the switch at the tree. Todays track project is to straighten, level and reballast the track to the car shed. |
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Lou Fowler loosens the rail joint clips in preparation to move the track sideways to straighten it out as George and Dick watch. Dick deep in thought about the situation with Rick in background. |
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The old ballast is used for the grade change to rework that hairpin (22' rad.) curve we have on the branch line. Lou is moving the track with Dicks' instruction prior to the finish ballasting. |
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George sweeps the ballast down the track as Lou and Rick tamp the ballast between the ties. Don Speidel and Paul Emch check out the brakes on the rider car as Dave oversees the work. |
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Looks like they are going to apply a little finesse to the rigging on the truck. Dick is screeding the ballast level with the edge of the ties using the broom with Rick and Lou to the left. |
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The tracks reworked and ballasted complete another mini project. We added more ballast to that replaced switch and brushed the stone down between the rails. |
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Ted Nyland was looking the club engine over as it sat on our transfer lift. Rick is moving the steel beams from up by the switch shed to the ditch we have to cross for the reworking of the Branch Line. |
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The two steel beams on the work gon leaving the yard. Dick at the ditch where we will use the steel beams to support our new bridge. |
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Rick moves the train over the existing culvert where we will pick up the beams and set them down on logs until the bridge abutments are in place. One of these 16" sq. cedar beams will be cut in half and used for the abutments. |
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