November 2022 Work Reports

[Bill Reidy]

Thanks, Mike--greatly appreciated.  I had hoped to be there today, purposely clearing my work calendar, but then we had the all too frequent poor management work chaos intervene Friday, so I still had to work today and will again tomorrow.

[Stephen Lennox]

A great job guys, the Sandy River work days has always been fun and productive.

Steve Lennox

[Wayne Laepple]

Thanks for the photos, Mike. Glad to see some good progress up there.

[Mike Fox]

Somehow I missed posting this photo of Brian driving the final spike

[Stephen Lennox]

Anticipated work for Tuesday and Wednesday 8-9 November 2021

*  Locomotive #11 cylinder meeting at the machine shop in Auburn.  (Jason, Gordon)
*  Passenger trucks rebuild
*  Engine house
*  SS clean up
*  Pit rails (Wed)
*  Coach #9 assembly/build

[Fred Morse]

Steve, We don't need to turn back One year.

[Jeff Schumaker]

Great photos, Mike. It looks like it was a very successful day. What weight rail are they using? It looks pretty small.

Jeff S.

[Mike Fox]

It kept changing. Some was 25 inside with what seemed like mostly 32 outside. Sharon says she can't walk 60 feet without a change in rail size, even on the main.

[James Patten]

Anticipated work for Saturday, November 12 (forecasted heavy rain from the remnants of Tropical Storm/Hurricane Nicole)

* Machine shop
* Engine house (inside work?)
* Whatever Mike has planned
* Board meeting at 4.

[Stephen Lennox]

Work completed Tuesday and Wednesday 8-9 November 2022

Tuesday:
*  Engine House work, windows, doors and shingles  (Brendan Stewart, Fred)
*  Passenger car truck rebuild painting frames and parts  (Carlos, Jerry)
*  Coach #9 assembly  (Eric, Ron)
*  Working everywhere (Randy)
*  Auburn machine shop with #11 cylinders  (Jason, Gordan)

Wednesday:
*  Train Ops, yard switching  (Dan, Brian W)
*  Track crew tamping north end of TB bridge  (Steve Lx, Steve Lt, Paul R, Leon, Chuck)
*  Vehicle recovery/repair, Blue tractor brought to SS  (Jay Barta)
*  Vacuum brakes design build  (Jonathan, Randy)
*  Engine house work continues  (Brendan, Fred, Stewart)
*  Locomotive #11 work  (Jason, Gordon, Rick)
*  Harsco tamper and Big Joe returned to SS  (Steve Lx, Steve Lt, Brian, Dan)

[James Patten]

Work done on Saturday November 12:

* Vehicles - Mike worked on the dozer, and probably some other things but I didn't get over that way much today.
* Engine house - Stewart was shingling
* MNG Loco 1 - Arrived on site this week for some truck work (dragging wheel), Jason got it going and then moved it from the ramp track to the lower yard, then ultimately over to engine house 2.  Once on the ramp the wheel started working fine.  It will be worked on by ML&M.
* Platform deconstruction - A good sized crew succeeded in dismantling most of the platform boards, leaving room to get into the gift shop and station.
* Board meeting @ 4.

[Mike Fox]

I dug out the little yellow forklift to get it ready to send away with the big yellow forklift.

I worked on the dozer, and was able to figure how much was needed to be machined from the sprockets and where. Oddly enough the numbers match my rough measurements I did this spring, so they must be right.



Cody helped me put a hydraulic Cylinder on the Backhoe, then we worked on the brakes on the case loader a little.

[Stephen Lennox]

Anticipated work for Tuesday and Wednesday 15-16 November 2022

*  Passenger car Trucks rebuild
*  Vacuum brakes design/build/test
*  Coach #9 build
*  Engine House build
*  Pit Rail
*  Rail clean up
*  SS clean up

[Ed Lecuyer]

[Moderator's Note]
A discussion regarding MNG #1 has been moved to the MNG section of the forum.

[James Patten]

Anticipated work for Saturday Nov 19:

* Storage area work
* Vehicle repair
* Enginehouse construction
* Platform/shelter dismantling
* Machine shop