There was a crew called this week to reinstall the track at the deep culvert location I finished last weekend. They worked on Wednesday, one of the hotest May days I remember, getting the rails back in place. If you know anything about heat and steel, you can imagine what they were dealing with. Well, Jason sent me this picture, and it shows exactly what happened.
They fought in the heat, and got all the new ties ready for us to put in.
So we had our work cut out for us..
We arrived on site about 8:40, and I took this picture before 9. We tried lining as it was, but was not moving. I suggested loosening the middle joint bars (I removed 2 length of rails and did not undo the joint) and it went easier. Here is Dana tightening the joint bars with the impact wrench.
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We installed the remaining ties, around 20 of then am started spiking. Because we were asked to identify people, left to right is James P., Bryce Weeks in the black shirt, Dana Deering swinging the spike maul, Bob Longo in the beard, and President Dave Buczkowski manning the tie nipper. After lunch we were joined by Dan M., which may be noticed in a later picture.
Story Time with Bob Longo..Note the proper social distancing..
They just crossed the new track that we had blocked up temporarily to go get ballast.
And they returned with the first load of ballast
1st load down..
Last (2nd load) done at 3:40..
And this week this is what the Sheepscot Car Barn looks like