Located at Penitentiary
Glen
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A view of the curing foundation with all the forms and anchor bolt template removed and awaiting the mounting of the signal mast. Lew Fowler looks over the foundation and the progress we've made to date. |
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At Robbi Haines' request, Bill Deptowicz is fixing the screen door for the outside entrance to the kitchen at the station. Dave Foster using his chain saw to cut down a dead apple tree in the orchard behind the station which we considered a safety hazard. |
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An overall view of the dead tree as Dave starts cutting free one of the two tree trunks. One down and Dave moves in to remove the branches from the fallen trunk. |
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Dave trimming free the branches of the first tree trunk. Lew Fowler, Edith Hacker and Wayne Boron carried the branches from the apple tree over to the fire ring for burning at a future date. |
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Dave cutting the trunk up into manageable pieces to be used in future camp fires. The second tree trunk is down and Dave is starting to remove the branches as Wayne frees up the rope used to control the fall of the tree trunk. |
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Lew is carrying one of the branches over to the fire ring as Dave continues trimming branches from the trunk. This trunk really had a lot of top branches that Dave had to remove. |
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Wally Pausch pulls one of the branches away as Dave cuts it free from the trunk. Bill Deptowicz about to haul some of the pieces of the trunk to the back of the tool shed where it will be piled up and left to dry out. |
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We left the trunk cut off high so that the children playing behind the station wouldn't trip over a stump. Rick's t-shirt says it all -- "Handy Man with an Attitude -- I came, I sawed, I'll fix it later". |
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The guys ballasted the new track behind the Willis Car Barn, with Frank Foti sweeping and Wally tamping the ballast between the ties as Dick and Rick take a break after unloading the gravel. The Park engine sits high on top of the Stanek car lift as Wayne, Dave and Joe Banzer work on a hydraulic leak of one of the motors on the truck. |
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Finding the leak and trying to tighten up the fitting with the exhaust in the way is another thing. You can see the wrench on the fitting to the motor, but I think we're going to have to replace the hose because of the swivel fitting on the end of the hose. |
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Wally scraping some of the ballast off the end of the ties as the guys look over the completed work for this siding -- another task completed. Rick using a brush to clean out the switch points from sweeping the ballast around the switch. |
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And down came the rain which ends this work session today and it caught the photographer up at the Stanek Car Barn where he'll just have to wait out the rain. If this keeps up, he'll never get back to the station since the water is starting to pond between the two barns. |
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