Watch your Tamper...

[Ed Lecuyer]

Photo by Jason Lamontagne attached:

[Mike Fox]

Awesome. The young guns are learning track maintenance..

[Bill Piche]

This mean that the track from the tank switch to the platform got leveled and tamped?

[Dave Buczkowski]

I note the new red flag. Hard to miss that as you are traveling along.
Dave

[ALAIN DELASSUS]

  I'm fairly sure the red banner is backed by a torpedo. Safety First !

[Jason M Lamontagne]

Bill: yes indeed!

Bryce and James came in Friday morning and made the novice mistake of asking if there was anything to do...

Great to indoctrinate them.

See ya
Jason

[Bill Baskerville]

This mean that the track from the tank switch to the platform got leveled and tamped?

Great that the young guns are learning new skills.  But Bill's question is still unanswered... did the tank to platform track get leveled and tamped?

[James Patten]

The track got tamped today, Saturday.  Here's some proof:

Bryce on the tamper, working by the platform:


There was a crew dumping stone using the tipcar, using up the stone stored at Sheepscot (needed to get out of the way for plowing).  "2nd James" was coordinating this work:

[Bill Baskerville]

Wow, that east rail came up a lot.

[Bill Reidy]

That's great news on the tamping.  The track lean was getting impressive this summer.  Won't miss it a bit.  Good job by all involved.

[Jeff Schumaker]

Nice to see the tip car in use. Was Fred's tractor used to fill it?

Jeff S.

[Dwight Winkley]

yes

[Gordon Cook]

Just a reminder in case there's more tamping time....
The turntable lead is leaning to the west.

[James Patten]

Wow, that east rail came up a lot.

You've no idea.  Right by the platform the east end of the tie was completely out of the ballast, I could put my foot underneath.  The tip car delivered a load right there, then Fred delivered more while Bryce was tamping.

[Fred Morse]

We found that only 1 tractor scoop-full didn't waste any over the edge of the fill,or not very much when using the tip car.