Some photos from today, April 30th--Day 2 of Spring Work Weekend.
Work continued one No. 11's rear frame. Here's a morning photo:

Most folks were busy spreading ballast at the future Trout Brook station. Ed Lecuyer and Jason Lamontagne designed an efficient system to deliver stone. Two trains were run, handled by No. 9 and No. 52. Each train delivered an empty flat to the unoccupied track at Alna Center where the stone is stockpiled, then pick up the loaded car on the adjacent track. As seen in Mike's photos above, Mike loaded the cars in the morning, and Bryce Weeks did the same in the afternoon. After leaving Alna Center, the locomotive pushed the flat and a passenger car to the tail track at Top of Mountain, to wait for the other locomotive to pull its passenger car and empty flat back to Alna Center. Some photos:
No. 9 and train on the tail track at ToM, waiting for No. 52's southbound train.

While waiting at ToM, No. 9's tank was refilled from the SOCONY tank car.

Fireman Dana Deering manning the tank car valve.

At Trout Brook, volunteers made short work unloading the stone. Some 12 carloads were handled today.



Toward the end of the day.

Some of the other work done today. The new planer shed is nearly done.


And two new Head Tide trail bridges.

Ballasting on the Mountain is planned for tomorrow.