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WW&F Railway Museum Discussion => Volunteers => Topic started by: James Patten on September 30, 2015, 06:02:49 AM
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Anticipated work for weekend of October 3 & 4. As this is the weekend before the work weekend, volunteers will probably be a little scarce.
* Car barn: finish the roof? Check out Mike's ditches and do what we can inside to get ready for the track laying.
* Loco 9
* Run trains.
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There is a charter Sunday afternoon. Volunteers for hosting, and some remaining train crew needs, would be extremely helpful.
Jason
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After viewing photo's of the carbarn it looks like one or two more rows of 2" X 6" purlin's need to added to the sides of the car barn, up near the roof before the siding can be installed. Can't see if the ends need purlins do to the staging.
dwight
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Dwight,
We have the lumber to put purlins in the gables, most 2X4's are on the pipe staging at the south end. There's a bit of fancy cutting to fit the purlins in the trusses, we just need time and people to install them.
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Looks like bracing and sheathing at the gable ends will require custom cutting.
That's how it is.
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It's the same type of purlins we put on the garage.
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Work done Saturday Oct 3 2015:
* Car barn - the roof is on! There's still some trimwork to do, but the big job is over. The side staging was taken down soon after. In the late afternoon Mike cut a ditch across where the track will go and put in a small culvert.
* Landscaping - Mike put in a big culvert across where the woods track will go, to drain the pond on the west side of the car barn. It was pretty muddy, the dozer looks like it's been mud running.
* Loco 9 - Marcel assembled one of the cab walls and brought it and the rear corner posts into the machine shop for priming and painting later. He plans to work on the other tonight or tomorrow.
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Actually Brendan did the digging this afternoon, I was clean up and mive the tractor guy.
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The ditch before the culvert went in.
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Drain pipe across under tracks
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Mike thanks for posting the pictures of the work on Car Barn and drainage. Can see how the water will be removed from the west side of the Car Barn. Brendan and the Deere did a very nice job. I know the roofing crew is glad to see the last of the metal installed. Thanks Fred L. Kuhns
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Great pics. You guys are really the Seabees NE civilian branch, right? ;)
Amazing that you all 'git-er-done' when necessary.
Nice to know the roof is complete, standing water is gone, a drainage system now exists, sheathing can soon start.
Looks like lots of expected track ballast rock was dumped east of the CB.
Good thing your JD tractor handles a backhoe. Am praying for Kubota's recovery and hi-rail conversion.
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Actually pulled the Kubota off the dead line for a little bit, just to get the culvert work done. Put on a good smoke show with it.
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See? Now the Kubota is also a 'mosquito fogger'. ;D
What a country.
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See? Now the Kubota is also a 'mosquito fogger'. ;D
LOL LIKE
Tom C.
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Anticipated work for weekend of October 9 - 12: Fall Work Weekend!
* Track laying: Construction of two switches and laying of track into the car barn (or out of the car barn to the switches - depending on how it all works out!). Ballasting of same (the stone supply is right next to the car barn) and doing whatever we have to do to make it serviceable. And if we have time, constructing some of the Woods Track.
* Car barn: Siding and upper purlins. Personally I'd like to be building track inside the barn before the siding goes up so that we have more light.
* Food: Kitchen crew will be busy.
* Loco 9: Perhaps cab assembly and tank placement. Once either/both are on, plumbing.
* Passenger trains: Last weekend for steam and for Sunday operations.
* Track maintenance: If there's time and crew.
There's a board meeting on Friday evening. It will be somewhere on campus!
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I thought the tank was going out to get the coal bunker coated before installation
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Not anymore...
Cold galvanize inside and bottom. Undercarriage coating top. Stewart treatment on show sides.
We are not overly pleased with the condition of the tank made apparent after sand blasting. It's serviceable, but many rivet heads are completely eroded off (we replaced with weld bead) and the pits are deeper than thought. It's no longer considered a tank for perpetuity. It'll need something in the 10-20 year time frame. My hope is that the "something" preserves use of the original in some fashion.
These facts weren't apparent prior to sand blasting, unfortunately.
Jason
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Are the worst conditions limited to the tank floor and the coal pocket, or is the degradation more widespread?
Steve
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Work done on Friday, October 9:
* Track: Dana and crew retrieved some 56-lb rail from up-line and brought it back to lay in Bay 1 of the car barn. Each piece needed some cropping and drilling. The Bay 1 track has been completely spiked down, except for a rail-and-a-half length. Meanwhile Rick laid out the locations for the frogs and switch ties. It rained in the afternoon, making the layout work difficult because of mud, but the track crew in the barn was dry.
I think a crew went out on the mainline and replaced some joint bars.
* Car barn: Purlins in the upper portion are done.
* Loco 9: Tank got painted outside and treated inside. I don't think it's done.
Sunshine for the rest of the weekend!
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Additional work from today's FWW -
* #9 - The interior of the tank was galv-coated and the outside was prime coated. Other parts were painted such as the fill neck and braces. Jonathan made new sealer gaskets for the two tank sumps.
* Whitefield section house replica - Building wrap was installed all the way around, this took some creative cutting on the north end as we ran low on material. Corner boards and windows were installed as was the front door trim. The structure looks some different than it did this morning. When the heavy rain set in the crew worked on the door roller system, it was nice and dry inside! We may build the door if the correct lumber arrives in time.
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Must be the WW&F Double-Time Crew.
You GO, guys! ;D
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Work done on Saturday Oct 10:
* Kitchen: Crew was hopping all day long, fed us great lunch and supper.
* Car barn: Building siding crew started on the east side and finished it. Track crew finished up the first bay track, and started on the third bay track. Ties are laid out for the middle bay too.
* Track crew: Rick did some refiguring (and remeasuring) and came up with a slightly different plan for the curve to the woods track. We re-staked it and it looked good, so ties started to be adjusted. In the afternoon we started moving rail in and late in the afternoon started spiking the west rail. Everything will be laid to that curve.
* Stone: The switch area was still vastly muddy after yesterday's rain, so I corralled some people into carrying stone to the muddy area. It started with carrying in the shovels, then to hauling buckets over, to using the Brookville and yellow handcar to haul full buckets over. It made a huge difference to the walkability of the area. The entire area got stone on it.
* Whitefield Section House replica: Steve and Annie and crew started shingling. The East and North sides were done (or almost so), the West and South sides have been started.
* Loco 9: The cab walls and roof were put on, as was the tank. After securing roof to walls to floor, the engine was rolled out for photos (see the #9 thread).
* Landscaping: Mike got on the dozer and started reducing the dirt/stump piles west of the car barn. It's now all smoothed out.
* Archives: The Archives Room was packed with people working. Allan Fisher was showing Linda how to enter things in Past Perfect, our archival software which we recently purchased. Others were recording the various collections.
I've probably missed some of the smaller projects, which I am sorry for.
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Absolutely incredible what was accomplished today!
Better leave something to do for the next two FWW days. ;D
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Work done Sunday, Oct. 11th - Day 3 of the Fall Work Weekend
* Car shed - Most of the inside rail for the second and third bays was set and spiked down. The west wall was completely sheathed. Staging on the south end was removed to be ready for sheathing the wall.
* Track crew - Additional rail was brought down to build the inside and yard tracks. More of the the upper yard was built including switch frogs and approach tracks for bays 2 and 3 of the car shed. The tracks are not connected but are closer, especially bay 3.
* Whitefield section house - The crew installed flashing above the windows and most of the shingles on the building.
* #9 - The tank bolt fasteners were installed and the cab received more work including prep for the side panels.
* Rolling stock - Volunteers this weekend had the chance to look over our "new" boxcar, B&SR #67 built by Laconia in 1905. See the Fall Work Weekend thread for more information on the car.
Notes on attendance so far - Friday: 61, Saturday: 88, Sunday: 73
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Add one each to sat and sun; haven't signed the book yet...
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Work done on Monday October 12 - Day 4:
* Track: The remainder of the track leading into the middle bay of the car barn was spiked down. Some of the track leading to the west bay of the car barn was as well. Inside the barn the light 25-lb rail does not have many joint bars, so some will get made soon - so that means half of the middle bay and the west bay tracks are unusable right now. Meanwhile Bill B. replaced some joint bars on the mainline.
* Car shed: Someone was nailing missed spots on the west wall this morning. In the afternoon a ditch was dug on the south wall for the anti-rodent screen to be put in.
* Whitefield section house: Steve and Annie finished up the shingling and gave them a coat of Linseed oil.
This week #10 will be drained and prepped for storage until Victorian Christmas.
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We have a wonderful group come together on these special work weekends. Thanks to all!
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Like Fred said, the group that comes together during the weekends is amazing. I feel lucky to know many of you and am thankful for all I have learned for you.
Thanks especially to my crew this weekend who did an amazing job getting the section house in tip-top shape for the winter. Thanks to you guys our handcars will have appropriate, dedicated winter storage. It was great also to meet many new first time visitors. Thanks for coming!
Everyone did such a great job. I hope to see you all again in the Spring or in the Fall.
Take care,
Steve
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Anticipated work for Saturday October 17:
* Car barn: continue walling in the south wall.
* Track: if time and people enough, we may want to start ballasting. Or continue spiking down Bay 3 of the car barn.
* Loco 9
This weekend we start our Fall schedule: trains at 11, 12:30 and 2:30, on Saturday only.
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Sharpen all your spikes or pre drill if they are the same ties are being used as what are on the south end of that track. I would rather use them for blocking on a tie pile. Hard as nails.
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Absolutely agree...my short track experience tells me pre-drilling spike holes in hardwood is essential, unless you are a 300-pound, long-time gandy dancer.
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I stopped by the museum this afternoon and saw Three people spiking rail on the woods track.
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Did these Three people come out of the woods to do so?
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Oh that was good!!! :)
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Indeed. Now I've figured out that Jason and Brendan were two of the wood sprites, but who was No. 3?
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I too was there this afternoon, and thought I spied Start there.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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"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. ;)
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A good pressure washing and liberal application of Harrys favorite oil would do wonders.
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It should be noted that Clarissa had the cedar shingles applied to the house. For years the structure had the T 111 style plywood siding (painted yellow) that Harry put up. Clarissa had the shingles put on after Harry passed away so the "siding" is about 10 years old. Cedar shingles are usually good for 15 to 20 years, sometimes longer. They turn dark but as long as they don't crack or curl they are good. Last year all the trim on the house was painted which improved its appearance. The job took about a month and the building looks pretty good. Eventually there will be a new shed dormer built on the back of the second floor and a stair tower added to the north end to serve the expanded upstairs. At that point the house may get new siding.
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Cedar shingles are indeed hardy. My grandmother's bungalow on Staten Island, a Sears "kit house" put up by my grandpa and uncles just after WWI to escape Manhattan Hell's Kitchen tenements, had its original shingles when we moved to Abq in 1957. Per recent Google Street View pics, they're still there, now painted green.
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VINYL SIDING! HORROR OF HORRORS!!
Actually I have put vinyl on my house (ranch) and it looks good. It is faux shingles in gray. For the time being I would go with Mike's suggestion.
Win Nowell
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Vinyl siding serves to trap moisture behind it, allowing formation of mold and eventually rot. I just did a repair project at my daughter's house and found lots of nasty stuff when I removed some vinyl siding from the porch to get at the problem. Regular pressure washing and application of preservative is the way to go.
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Anticipated work for Saturday October 24:
* Car barn: south wall siding (under the eaves), maybe north wall siding.
* Loco 9
* Track: ballasting? Connecting rails inside the barn? The flatcar in the barn has a bunch of light rail on it. It would be nice to build up a rail storage area along the future woods track location and move this rail to it. It is very light so it won't take many to move it.
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James. this is 25 lb. rail on flat car. I was told that 33 lb rail was going to be used on the woods track after the curve. There is one curved rail on the ground between tracks 2 and 3 near south end of carbarn that has to be put back on flatcar. The 25Lb rail came from the far back end of the rail pile at Davis. The frount of the rail pile is 33 lb rail. Check with Dana or Jason before unloading rail near the woods track.
dwight
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Rail weight on woods track still being discussed- not necessarily settled.
Jason
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Sounds like the car barn triangular gable end areas will get final sheathing; then, eventually, vertical battens on whole exterior.
I would use as heavy a rail as I had to finish trackwork. You never know what it will have to carry.
Your work train rig--52 with a long tow bar pulling a small 4-wheel flat cart, used at TOM, looks ideal for easily moving rail.
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most of the time the 1 1/2 ton Brookville #51 is used with the long drawbar and 4 wheel flat. Moves 10 rails at a time.
dwight
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How are we going to get our Beyer-Garrett delivered? Seriously though, if the woods track is for deliveries, it should not pose a weak spot in our system.
-John M
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Or No. 11?
I believe for low speed movements, 35lb rail is probably sufficient. I was just reading how #10 on the SRRL was OK on the older branches with light rail. We have lighter stuff in the yard now.
I'm sure Jason will chime in with actual knowledge.
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I agree with Gordon on 33-35. It was 25 that I was concerned about.
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So- here's the flip side. We are using 33, as most of you know. This rail size is not asce- as such it is, as far as we know unique. Once we use the last stick it's gone. That's ok except that we have to maintain what we have.
We currently have 7 conventional switches and one 3-way which require this rail size. I'd like to be left with no less than 10 spare pieces to replace broken rails, make replacement points and frogs, etc. 10 may seem high, but forever is a long time...
I see the point on heavy rail on the woods track- but even as a loading track, we won't be in there that much. The bay 2 shop lead was laid with 25 lb rail some 20 years ago- it's not all that bad off.
We have lots of 25 lb rail with no place to go. We're running out of 33.
The worst axle loading the WW&F has ever seen is our 52. Heavier than no 6. 52 trundles over the bay 2 lead regularly, far more than it will likely be on the woods track.
All that said, Zack and others expressed some concern over using 25 lb rail on the woods track over work weekend. I was busy and didn't take time to think through the pros and cons. I have now and laid them out above. I'll bring this back up with Zack and further opinions are certainly welcome here. It may well end up 33- I won't go home crying!
Thanks,
Jason
Edit: no 7 had a heavier axle loading. 8 tons. Oops- and we're going to build one! Opinion still pretty much the same on the woods track. But I'm not that dug in on the subject. Just want some spare 33 lb sticks when all is said and done.
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Harry had a rule of thumb for rail weight suitable for main line service: axle loading in tons / 2, X 10 for weight per yard.
25 lb rail good for 5 ton axle loading on the main line.
Of course tie spacing and roadbed factor in heavily.
See ya Jason
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I agree 100% with Jason with regard to keeping some sticks of the 33# rail for spares. Speaking from my own experience, I was caught short some 28 years ago when the railroad I worked for was rehabbed with state and federal funds. The majority of our line was laid with 101# DL&W rail, a rare section. Unbeknownst to me, the contractor replacing damaged rails (there were lots and lots of bolt-hole breaks in the joint bars) was taking the damaged rails for scrap and using up our stock of spare full-length rails. The end result was that not only did he run out of spare rails, but we wound up having to re-lay a half mile of track with 100-pound Reading rail in order to get enough 101DL&W rail to complete the project. Fortunately, there were no switches in that half mile of "new" track. The two rail sections mated up quite well, but the joint bars were not compatible and didn't have the same drilling. So it was a colossal pain in the you-know-what. Some time later, we were able to buy a truckload of 101DL rail from a take-up in New Jersey so we would have a stock of spares.
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More ties to the mile will give higher axle loading - correct?
So it comes down to the cost of ties versus rail - so if 33# rail will "never"
be available again better to hang on to "some" to be able to repair critical locations "forever".
Just my 4 ha' penny.
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Can we increase to the next size up, 40#, or did we use all that too? Also, I would like to load ramp parts on a flat Saturday morning and build the north ramp. And get it done before train time. Then the south ramp can be constructed during the day. Then I plan on a little Kubota work, removing the head to make certain the trouble before I order parts. The dozer will be going north in a couple weeks for what will probably be a day of work, main line grading.
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There's only a few sticks of 40 left.
One thing we should decide is how far the woods track is going. That'll help determine the 33 usage.
Jason
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Will the woods track be an industrial track? With saw mill and/or shingle mill with team track end? If so, make it as long as we can.
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My understanding is the woods track would parallel the parking lot's west edge, providing a level place to transfer freight or rail vehicles truck-to-track and vice-versa, could be extended max to the shoulder of Cross Road.
Options could include a high platform on one side...or an elevated track end to match flatbed height (per Cumbres and Toltec or Silverton Northern RRs).
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Actually, the woods track was planned to stop parallel with the pine stump that has yet to be removed. Brendan would like it to have a small ramp on the end, about the height of the beavertail on the museums trailer. This will not only make it easier to load and unload our trailer, but also it would be easier loading from a Landall style trailer, which is what has delivered most of our equipment.
Between the ramp and the garden shed, we have talked of flooding the track with either ballast or gravel, so a loaded truck could back in and unload rail to a rail pile. This would save labor, rather than unloading the truck either onto the ground or onto the flats, by putting it directly in storage until needed.
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Instead of a permanent ramp at the end of the Woods Track, how about a section of track that could be jacked up and blocked at whatever height necessary to access either our own trailer or any Landoll or other as necessary. I've seen that arrangement at several trolley museums I've visited. The trouble with buried track, whether in stone or pavement, is that you can't see the condition of the ties beneath the surface.
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Work done today, October 24:
* Car barn: The south wall is completely boarded over, including the eaves. Meanwhile Fred, Leon, and others were busy ripping battens and other long dimensional lumber.
* Loco 9: Marcel was working on the running boards. Because the old running boards are in rather hard shape, we're putting in new. Some other work may have been happening.
* Track: Stewart did some ballasting with the tractor on the approach track for the first bay of the barn. Dave B drilled holes on the new joint bars for the small rail.
* Ramp: Mike started assembling a ramp to get dozer and maybe other equipment onto flatcars for a trip north.
* Whitefield section house: This week we had delivery of hardwood for the floors. It currently sits on a flatcar under cover in the car barn.
* Manual switching: Forgot to mention that Mike moved every one of the 4-wheeled work flats by hand, mainly to get at the crane car.
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Looking good.
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Is the plastic corrugated pipe for drainage work around Sheepscot or for the start of washout repair?
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No. Too small. It will be used in future drainage improvements
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No. Too small. It will be used in future drainage improvements
Good to know. I have an idea or two about what/how to do the washout drainage, but I'm sure it'sd nothing that anyone else hasn't thought of and/or mentioned somewhere in this forum. ;)
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Work done today, October 24:
* Car barn: The south wall is completely boarded over, including the eaves. Meanwhile Fred, Leon, and others were busy ripping battens and other long dimensional lumber.
* Loco 9: Marcel was working on the running boards. Because the old running boards are in rather hard shape, we're putting in new. Some other work may have been happening.
* Track: Stewart did some ballasting with the tractor on the approach track for the first bay of the barn. Dave B drilled holes on the new joint bars for the small rail.
* Ramp: Mike started assembling a ramp to get dozer and maybe other equipment onto flatcars for a trip north.
* Whitefield section house: This week we had delivery of hardwood for the floors. It currently sits on a flatcar under cover in the car barn.
* Manual switching: Forgot to mention that Mike moved every one of the 4-wheeled work flats by hand, mainly to get at the crane car.
The last of the brush was also cut off the elevated right-of-way at Head Tide north of the cut -- something that hadn't quite been completed in August.
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Bill, The ROW south from Head Tide road to the highway was cleared several years ago and several walk bridges installed at wash-outs. How are the these improvements holding up? I guess each year you have to keep up with under bush and weed control. Fred L. Kuhns
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Looks like the car barn is ready for some big MAIL POUCH TOBACCO advertising! ;D
Used to see those big letters on Pennsylvania barns during our Greyhound rides from Staten Island to visit steelworker relatives in Youngstown.
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Pete, the washout (the first compromise of the ROW north of TOM) was figured this summer, and a presentation to the board was made with my recommendations, which they stated they wanted bigger. So, I have planned a 48 inch steel culvert for that. Steel because it is so far down. After my initial assesment and research, I had settled on the minimum, which was 36". Going with the boards request did not increase the cost much more. 170 yards of fill will keep us busy for a bit.
Now as for the slide, that is another issue entirely, and am still researching the requirements needed along the base of it, as it may be within the flood plain of Trout Brook. But we will be ready when we get there.
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Wow, thanks for the run-down on all that! :D
My thoughts were leaning toward pre-fab concrete and the possibility of "dressing up" the ends to make it look like a stone culvert. ;)
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The only problem we face with that would be the size needed. We would not be able to place the sections with our equipment. Too heavy.
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Aha! Makes sense.
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Anticipated work for Saturday, October 31:
FYI, the Alna VFD is having a hunter's breakfast 4:30 - 9 on Saturday morning. Come and support the fire company!
* Albion Day: Dave B is leading the charge. Departure from Sheepscot around 8.
* Running trains at Sheepscot. This is the last day of scheduled train operations this year (until Victorian Christmas).
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All;
Please let me know if you will be attending Albion Day because Phil would like a count for lunch. He needs to know how much Road Kill Helper to buy I guess. ;D Thanks.
Dave
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All;
Please let me know if you will be attending Albion Day because Phil would like a count for lunch. He needs to know how much Road Kill Helper to buy I guess. ;D Thanks.
Dave
He ain't kiddin'. Phil knows how to feed a crew.
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Work done on Saturday October 31, 2015.
This is a partial report because I went to Albion and had to leave early.
* Albion: The stub switch has got spacers on it, and has been hooked up to the bridge tender switch thrower. We spiked a rail out the back of the engine house. Dave B bush-whacked the weeds. A couple of local fellows were looking the locomotive over.
* Sheepscot car barn: Friday some battens started going on. The plan was to do more today. More stone going in around the moat where the wire mesh went in.
* Old mill: A crew went to inspect an old mill in Vassalboro. I'm not sure what the results of the inspection was supposed to be, so hopefully someone can chime in.
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* Old mill: A crew went to inspect an old mill in Vassalboro.
Yet another mill?
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A bit more:
* #9 - Marcel worked on the cab, installing the tie down irons. He also worked on the doors. A meeting was held with the paint crew to determine the next stage of installing the running boards. The boards have been notched for the sand pipes, etc. and will be fit to the braces (drilled) so they can be primed.
* Car barn - Zack and Fred cleaned out the Prebles job shack to determine how many nails and other supplies we need to continue the project. More battens were cut and corner boards were set. A switching plan has been set for the coming week. This includes #67 going into the car shop and #65 and 320 going into the center bay of the barn. Big Joe will go into the car shop for brake work.
* Archives - Linda worked on more data entry of artifacts.
* Whitefield section house - Dark paint was applied to the south window casing so it better matches the shingles.
* Garage - The area inside the small door was cleaned up with some things like square nuts going to the machine shop.
We had a nice lunch today, complete with fresh home made donuts for dessert.
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Hope someone gets some shots of the upcoming switching moves around the barn. Should be interesting!
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Uh, why was only the section house south window repainted?
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Because the paint would set up on the sunny side. No sun of the north end this time of year.