Work done on Saturday Dec 3:
* Weed whacking: Dwight worked at whacking between Trask and Alna Center. He also did some whacking on Friday.
* Boxcar 67: Zack spent the day on starting to put down the floor. Of course its not as easy as just putting boards down, where the bolt heads stick up has to be carved out, and there's a number of other obstacles until you get past the bolsters. As I left mid-afternoon he had just finished the floor boards over the bolsters.
* General clean up: First thing Fred and I got joint bars at Alna Center and brought them back and unloaded them. (Someday Fred hopes to sort them by size/holes/etc) Then, since new victims had shown up, we went up to Albee's field and picked up all the tie piles that were used to store rail or as tie storage, and brought them back. After lunch we loaded them in the truck and took them to the end of the road. Then we went back to AC and picked up some shortish/lightish pieces of rail that were stored near the north yard limit, and brought them back. The short and light pieces weren't nearly as short or light as I thought they were passing by them on the train. Unrelated to what we were doing, Mike cut up the culvert piece he had brought back earlier this fall to take to scrap, using one piece to pop over the end of the culvert under the roundhouse track in order to pretend that it's a steel culvert.
* Parking lot entrance: Mike extended the parking lot entrance this morning, putting in an extra culvert piece that we had laying around and covering it up. Between Steve on tractor and Mike on Kubota they got out enough fill from the piles at the end of the parking lot to level it off (the area where the fill was is very soft, so Mike got the Kubota firmly entrenched in the mud and proceeded to move dirt around, before extracting himself.
* Christmas prep: We purchased some small stone and Mike used the dozer to spread it around on the roundhouse run-through track. This area will be a second boarding location for passengers, so it needs to be smooth walking. Also Mike brought some newly constructed low platforms which were put down at that location and at AC.
* Magphone: John asked us to test the magphone between AC and SS, which we did. It is A-OK.