Located at Penitentiary
Glen
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Need to add a switch on the left but decided that the water in the area needed to be aliviated. George Davidson, Tom Reder and Rick Nagy start trenching for the drainage pipe. |
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In this view you can see the new switch setting in place as digging continues. Tom and Rick are trying to put Edith Hacker out of the trenching business. |
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Joe Banzer is poking out the gravel beneath the switch. Tried putting the pipe in place but we need to deepen the trench at one end to pass the pipe through. |
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Meanwhile our trencher, Edith Hacker, is digging a trench to connect the end of the new pipe with an existing trench. George is starting to remove the gravel from the section of track taken out. |
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George watches Tom dig out for the headwall at the high end of the pipe as Rick removes ballast. With the pipe in place all we need to do is fill in and reballast the track. |
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Dick is getting ready to cut the end of the existing aluminum rail to match the steel rail of the new switch. Joe and Frank pose for the photographer as Rick watches over the cutting of the rail. |
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Dick files the end of the cut rail for the slide-on rail joiner. Meanwhile our trencher, Edith, has been busy digging through the roots and around sapplings to connect our new culvert pipe to an existing trench. |
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At the steaming bays we find Paul Emch working on Don Spiedels' Speeder doing some maintainance. A view from the other side with the body lifted up. |
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After our break it was back to work placing down the new rail to join the switch. Rick and Tom wait as Dick sights down the track to verify the curvature is right. |
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Dave Foster brought his leaf blower and started the task of removing the leaves from the gutters and the track. Tom Reder and Bill Deptowicz drill the track for the bolted rail splice. |
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Frank waits for the guys to finish the rail joint connection at this end. Edith has completed the drainage trench up to our new pipe culvert. |
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Edith and Tom watch Frank and Joe finsh connecting the rail together. Joe is using the tie lifter as Frank, using a bar and hammer, tightens up the exiting rail clips by peening them over. |
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Rick cleans the ballast away from the points as Edith spreads ballast behind Frank and Tom takes a break. The finished trackwork with the new switch installed...all in a days work. |
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