Nice pictures Brendan. Here's a short recap of today:
Work done Friday, April 24th - Work Weekend day 1 (day 3 for some of us)
* Track - Per Brendan's photos, much progress with ballasting the track at TOM. The process took a bit of special train dispatching with stone being loaded out of two stations, Sheepscot and Alna Center. Dean's bobcat loader went to AC and getting it there was something. The unit was unloaded at the Alna Fire station and driven up 218 to Averill Road. Next, three snow drifts had to be cut through to get the machine to AC. Once done Dean was quick loading stone. Steve Z. loaded cars at Sheepscot until that stone pile ran out. The track crew made quick work of spreading stone. Switch work included making plates to adjust the height.
* Shop building - The damaged siding (from the snow plow) was repaired with new boards.
* #9 - Wayne and crew worked on the smokebox screen. Note: the original smokebox was re-attached to the old boiler as well.
* Car storage building - Zack and crew raised the east side staging planks to be ready to set the trusses. Bracing was added to correct out of plumb frames.
* Garage - Josh R. wired an new 20 amp service into the building.
* Kitchen - Sue, Nancy Weeks, Barb, Dawn and others did a nice job preparing meals for everyone. Other people made things and sent them for the day. Kathy's homemade donuts were wicked good.
* Information - Brendan made a notice board that listed all the projects and the team leader. The board is on the front of the rest room where people can check it as they enter the complex.
About 50 people signed the book. There were a few smaller projects and we may highlight some of them later.
It was a very productive day!
