Sheepscot Passenger Platform Reconstruction - Official Work Thread

[Carl G. Soderstrom]

Really old time dance floors had spring built into them.

Up & down is not too bad -- side to side will give you "mal de mer"

[Mike Fox]

Even a steel and cement bridge will bounce. Ever sit on one as a heavy truck goes by? Bouncing is fine.

[Brendan Barry]

The first set of new beams was put underneath the freight shed today.

All the beams were carried down and staged at the end of the timber road.





A roller support was made up to bolt to the pile and a piece of roller conveyor was placed on cribbing under the bulding. Using the excavator we fished the beam through the first roller support and onto the roller conveyor. When the beam reaches halfway under the building we unhook the excavator and push the beam by hand the rest of the way under the building on the rollers. When the beam is sticking out the track side of the building we take the excavator back around and hoist the beam up on the other pile.













New beam under the building running out to the pile. The screw jack is under a temporary beam put under the building for jacking.



New beam in the back. Screw jacks under the temporary jacking beam. There is 10 temporary beams under the freight house and 20 screw jacks will be used to lower the building.





Looking south under the freight shed. You can see the old utilty pole supports that we are cutting out as we put jacks in and the next lifting beam sitting on the cribbing.

[Jeff Schumaker]

Very impressive. Great idea of using a roller conveyor to help position the beams.

Jeff

[Brendan Barry]

More new beams under the freight shed.

[James Patten]

The last one will be a doozie - electrical and telecom connections to dodge, need to tear out the platform to separate it from the building.

[Daniel Moreau]

The last one will be a doozie - electrical and telecom connections to dodge, need to tear out the platform to separate it from the building.

Let me know if (or when) you need some help with the telecoms. If there's one thing I can do, it would be that.

[John McNamara]

Hi Daniel,

Always glad to hear of telecom interest. Welcome aboard!  Scott or Joseph will doubtless contact you shortly.

John M

[Brendan Barry]

One last pile put in with the Kubota.







The last two beams went in yesterday and we finished bolting all the beams together today. We also reset all the crib piles and adjusted the jacks to lower the building tomorrow.

[Brendan Barry]

Freight house down on the new beams and platform work underway.

[Jeff Schumaker]

How many volunteers does it take to lower a freight shed?

Jeff

[Bill Baskerville]

How many volunteers does it take to lower a freight shed?

Jeff

From the Facebook page, apparently 11.  Five in the back, one on each rear jack, Five trackside, one on each front jack, and Bob Longo to yell commands at them.  Each yell equals one complete turn down of the jack screw.

[Ted Miles]

The new lower deck will be appreciated by all of us older folks with unsteady legs! I hope the book/gift store is back to work soon!
 Will the new dance floor get a shed over it?   Thanks for all you do! Ted Miles WW&F Member Build 11 Contributor

[James Patten]

Each bay held four jacks - two on the east and two on the west sides.  One person in each side in each bay controlled two jacks.  It was pretty easy work once we all figured out which direction to turn our jacks.

[Brendan Barry]

We finished framing the platform in front on the freight house and nailed down half the decking today.





We decided the old platform supports in front of Sheepscot Station were to far gone so we replaced the supports in the afternoon.
The new supports are left over pile cutoffs.