October 2015 Work Planning

[Fred Morse]

I stopped by the museum this afternoon and saw Three people spiking rail on the woods track.

[Jason M Lamontagne]

Did these Three people come out of the woods to do so?

[John Kokas]

Oh that was good!!!

[Wayne Laepple]

Indeed. Now I've figured out that Jason and Brendan were two of the wood sprites, but who was No. 3?

[James Patten]

I too was there this afternoon, and thought I spied Start there.

[James Patten]

Work done on Saturday Oct 17:

* Car barn: The south wall has been board up, and Zack started on the upper part.  The upper goes much slower because of constant remeasuring.  We also started putting rock in the ditches where the wire mesh went.
* Loco 9: Stewart did some painting on the tank, the first black coat.  I saw Marcel around, one time with a door in a his hand, but didn't see any of what he was doing.

Small crew today.

[Paul Uhland]

So besides painting, all that's left to finish the car barn building are sheathing both gable ends and hanging doors?
The big back door idea is dead?
Will the entire interior floor receive ballast?
Still think all that inside back grass should be grubbed out.
Again, compliments to the entire outstanding FWW crew.
Permanent shelter for railcars  is now assured.

[Dwight Winkley]

Hi Paul. The whole car barn needs the battens installed. Than painting.

The track was built on top of the grass.

The three tracks will get stone ballast and be tamped at the Spring Work Weeekend (SWW) April 29th to May 1st 2016 Not sure about between the tracks.

We have to make the north end doors before we can hang them

At the end of FWW,
Track 1, can be used.
Track 2, is all spiked down. Only half can be used at this time. Some joint bars need to be made.
Track 3, All ties are down. Rail spiked down expect 2 rails that are in the barn but have to be put in place and spiked down. Than  two closure rails have to be cut and drilled to hook up with the outside track allready spiked.

There are 6 guard rails that have to be made and installed, The two sets of switch points need more work and the switch stands need to be installed.
dwight

[Paul Uhland]

Thanks for the details. Was wondering if narrow, vertical battens would be used over the sheathing board joints to increase weather tightness, barn-type SOP for years.
Will add 'character' to the building.
Am assuming the six big door 'leafs' (door-speak) would  be built, where else, IN the car barn.
Will woods track work continue for now?
With local Alna wx now showing dropping temps and more rain, car barn/trackwork was mostly done JIT!

Don't mean to be pushy, just very interested per my construction background.
 

[John McNamara]

The shop building, the freight house, the freight house platform extension, and the restroom building all use the narrow, vertical battens you mention, so the answer to your first question is "yes."

-John M

[James Patten]

Zack has the hinges for the doors, but he wants to wait until all tracks have been ballasted and brought up to the right level.  Only then will the doors go on - since then he'll know how tall to make them.  So there won't be doors on this winter, since getting all that done won't happen this year.  Maybe we'll tarp the entrances, or put plywood over them, or who knows.

Stock for joint bars arrived this past week.  The bars have be custom made since we don't have any joint bars for the 25 pound rail (it's pretty small), which is what bays 2 and 3 of the car barn are. 

[Dwight Winkley]

Paul, I don't think anymore work will be done on the Wood's track until all the other yard tracks are finished. Maybe work for next spring.The Wood's track was worked on during the week to finish the curve to hold every thing in place.

My guess is the outdoor crew will now work to finish the car barn as much as posibly before the snow gets to deep.

Oh ya! your not pushy.

dwight

[Jason M Lamontagne]

Dwight's correct about the woods track- we only advanced it the 60 ft that we did this week so we could both hold and visualize the curve through the last switch, so it in turn can be finalized. 

Any further track work in the north (alternatively upper) yard will be to tie in the last bay.

See ya
Jason

[Win Nowell]

I don't wish to be disrespectful but the siding on Harry's house is beginning to look tired. Maybe something is being planned for the future which I am not privy to. When one compares it to the rest of the buildings on the property it looks out of place.

[James Patten]

"Someday" the Percival house will become a visitor center, at least that's the current thought.  But we aren't ready to jump that way yet.  That would be the last thing to happen in a multi-year set of changes to the house.  So presumably in all the work would be an update to vinyl siding.  Or not.