Lake Shore Live Steamers.com

Located at

Penitentiary Glen
8668 Kirtland-Chardon Rd
Kirtland, Ohio 44094

One of the projects for todays work session, Bill Bemis added braces across our tables at the station so they wouldn't tip when you sat down. Bill's driving in deck screws into a brace to hold them together from the top.

Frank Foti, Rick Nagy and Joe Banzer load buckets on the train with limestone ballast. George Metts car kept derailing with two people on it and we found the side frames on the trucks had racked over and the wheel sets didn't track behind each other.

Tom Pappas walks along the train steadying a switch panel as Rick Nagy heads for Gruffer. Dick Clark, Tom and George Woodling place the switch on the existing track in it's approximate new location.

Bill Deptowicz is trying to do a levitation act to raise the car off the tracks. Not really, I was going to use the car for support to kneel down. The car with the cushion removed so that I could add bricks for weight under the seat.

Tom helped me carry the bricks and add them to the car and is seen here putting the screws back into the seat cushion. Back at the limestone pile Tom was using the pick to loosen up the gravel.

Meanwhile at the steaming bays, Paul Emch and Don Speidel inspect and check the brakes and bearings on the rider cars. Here they are relubricating the trucks at the bearing points.

After our work break Rick and Tom carry the existing switch we removed from Gruffer. The new steel switch behind Rick will replace the one Dick and Frank Foti are unbolting.

The new switch in place and new steel rails being added to tie it in. The old switch was all aluminum and the points were starting to wear as all the traffic thru the switch was bearing to the left, on the curved rail.

Rick found that backing over a wheel chock placed between the wheels of the engine causes a derailment. This steel switch should stop the wear on the points and frog for traffic bearing left.

The crew is putting in aluminum rail for the straight section thru the switch and steel rail for the curved section which is used most. Ron Trenhaile helps Dick with bending curvature to the steel rail in the rail bender.