Others can fill in where I missed, but here is the report from Phillips. I arrived at 7:15..
Driving in the access road, you are greeted by the Sandy River. Here we are looking at where the center pier used to be of the covered bridge.
This is looking at the remnants of the center pier while looking at the south abutment.
Now to the before hand pictures. The Car Barn itself is very impressive. This is how it looked at 7:30am.
Then we got to work.
While a crew was inside the car barn spiking the track in there, we tackled the switch. I had started early with Sharon, and got the points to meet the diverging rail, so we could spike it. Here is James spiking the frog.
And here we are a little bit later
The guys inside kept pounding away, Fred and Zack were behind the roundhouse cutting wet ties (which were much easier to drive a spike into that when they are dry) and one of the guys (Eric) was hauling them over with his tractor.
James taking a break
2:30 this afternoon, we were very close to getting the rails in the building tied to the main.
Inside is spiked every other tie as requested. Eventual plans are to finish spiking these.
More rail was installed in the center stall and spiked.
We finished just after 3. Laying 154 feet of track, spiking the switch, and spiking the track inside the building. A very productive day.
Our crew consisted of (in no particular order) myself, James P., Steve L., Mark C., Ken Berlo, Brian W., Fred, Zack, Freds son-in-law Barry, Linda, Carlos and Jerry Steinke, Jay B, J. B. Smith and Dave B. I feel I am forgetting someone...
Throughout the day we had several volunteers from SR&RL helping, and I can not name them all. Melvin and Scott came in early and got things ready for us. Eric brought his tractor, Sharon and the other SR&RL guys (and gals) were there helping as much as possible. I apologize if I missed anyone.
It was great for us to work together in a way they definately need help with, labor.
