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Stephen Lennox

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Re: April 2023 Work reports
« Reply #30 on: April 23, 2023, 04:29:26 PM »
Anticipated work for Tuesday and Wednesday 25-26 April 2023

*  Engine House
*  Passenger car truck rebuild
*  Coach #9 build
*  Vacuum Brakes
*  SWW prep.
*  Loco #11 work session
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Re: April 2023 Work reports
« Reply #31 on: April 23, 2023, 08:48:37 PM »
Due to a family obligation I cannot attend this years SWW.  However I have just completed 20 new TRIGS to go with the 12 new Skates.  I will bring them up in July.  Everyone enjoy the SWW.  I will be with you in spirit. 
Bill
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Re: April 2023 Work reports
« Reply #32 on: April 24, 2023, 06:43:11 AM »
Thank you Bill, they will be appreciated and well used.

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Re: April 2023 Work reports
« Reply #33 on: April 25, 2023, 06:28:41 PM »
Work completed Tuesday, 25 April 2023

*  Passenger car trucks rebuild continues  (Jerry, Carlos)
*  Vacuum brake work continued off site  (Jonathan)
*  Engine House, clean up, recovery of building materials  (Fred)
*  Archives work continues  (Linda)
*  Loco #11 work session continues  (Jason, Rick, Gordon C)
*  Coach #9 work continued  (Ron)
*  General clean up, receiving/unloading deliveries,  (Brendan)
*  SWW Prep, materials laid out for Garden Track, 42 ties laid out on main line, track inspection
    (Steve Lx, Brian W, Steve Lt, Paul R, Ty, Dan, Bill Keay)

Notes: Cold, rainy weather was problematic today, work continued for preparation for the SWW.  Work
            will continue through out the week.
            SWW this weekend!

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Re: April 2023 Work reports
« Reply #34 on: April 26, 2023, 05:48:22 AM »
Anticipated work for Fri - Sat April 28 - 30, 2023: Spring Work Weekend!

* Construction of the "Garden Track" west of the enginehouse.
* Enginehouse work - see Brendan
* Boxcar 56
* Car painting
* Track/ballast work
* Head Tide Trail work (Saturday only) - see Steve P
* Sheepscot grassy area clean up (Saturday only) - see Mike
* Trout Brook station painting
* Food prep and serving - see Nancy

Weather forecast is sunny and warm on Friday, cloudy and less warm Saturday, and rain on Sunday.

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Re: April 2023 Work reports
« Reply #35 on: April 28, 2023, 04:58:52 PM »
Partial work report for SWW Day 1, Friday Apr 28:

* Garden track: constructed and ballasted.
* Loco 11: Riveting on the frame.
* Ballast work: a crew working on the Mountain removing ballast from between the rails above the ties, and trying to redistribute it.
* Loco 9: Put over the pit and sponges on top of the driver cellars were replaced.
* Nancy and crew were hard at work on food.

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Re: April 2023 Work reports
« Reply #36 on: April 28, 2023, 07:45:37 PM »
SWW Day 1 - Additional work:

* Engine house - Fire retardant was applied to the interior walls and the east side window sashes were painted.

* ML&MW caboose sanded/prepped for paint. Open car 130 cleaned and the benches and the floor was painted.

* Archive room - Josh worked on the electric service for the new facility.
« Last Edit: April 28, 2023, 08:41:37 PM by Ed Lecuyer »

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Re: April 2023 Work reports
« Reply #37 on: April 28, 2023, 08:40:43 PM »
Head Tide Trail work got a little head start today with help from Eric Snyder and the Piwowarski-Baron Clan.

Today the following was done:

Blowdowns were cut and cleared between Trout Brook and Head Tide Road

One of the remaining old trail bridges was dismantled, another had most of its deck removed to make it unusable (but was left in place for now because some birds were nesting under the deck)

New approaches to two new bridge locations were trimmed in and had retaining walls and stairs built in steep areas.

A log retaining wall was constructed to hold the trail across a small washout

Tree cookies were used to build a path across a wet section in the middle of ahead afire cut.

Tomorrow work is planned to include:
Leaving Sheepscot at 8:30 AM- (carpool to Trout Brook if possible)
- string trim/weedwack the trail from TBS to Head Tide
- build either bog bridging or cut tree cookies for a wet section of about 200’ in length
- carry 2 bridge frames to their final locations.

After lunch:
- Removing the last old bridge from the RoW, to be replaced by a trail reroute over the end of the Route 218 culvert.
- Install and deck the 2 new bridges
-build in a set of stairs to reach the crest of the RoW at the Head Tide Road end of the trail.

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Re: April 2023 Work reports
« Reply #38 on: April 29, 2023, 05:47:54 PM »
Partial report for day 2 of SW,W, Saturday April 29:

* Track crew: 50 ties replaced.
* Engine house: the remaining walls were sprayed with fire retardant.  The retardant applied yesterday had not dried, so insulation could not be installed.  The insulation packaged were moved into the engine house
* Caboose 554: the caboose was painted inside and out - and moved into the engine house to reduce the chance of ruining the paint job with rain.
* Head Tide trail: lots of trail work and prep to install the bridges.
* Loco 11: more frame work
* Dirt work: Mike and Cody were busy - but not on what he wanted to do.
* Food!  Breakfast, lunch, and supper, thanks to Nancy and crew.

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Re: April 2023 Work reports
« Reply #39 on: April 30, 2023, 09:11:05 AM »

* Dirt work: Mike and Cody were busy - but not on what he wanted to do.
We got some clean up done but were helping where we were needed supporting some of the other projects going on.
Mike
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Re: April 2023 Work reports
« Reply #40 on: May 02, 2023, 09:53:57 AM »
The archive room now has lights and the outlets are hot. Good job, Josh! I ran an Ethernet cable as requested by Linda. We left an old laptop connected and running as evidence that the Ethernet jack is enabled. Only device we could find with an Ethernet port!

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Re: April 2023 Work reports
« Reply #41 on: May 02, 2023, 10:43:22 AM »
I wanted to take a few minutes to recap and thank everyone who came out to work on the Head Tide Trail on Saturday and also more generally, everyone who joined us during work weekend;

On the trail, we had a great team of young, very young, and enthusiastic folks who made the work easier and fun.

Saturday we finished the regular trail maintenance as far as Head Tide cut, including trimming of small brush and overgrowth.

A large dead, standing White Pine was removed from the ROW close to Trout Brook and used to cut tree biscuits for filling a boggy area just ahead of midcoast's access road. Ultimately, the reason for the boggy area is that the access road was built as a fill over the ROW and doesn't have any culverts for the ditches, so the uphill side fills with water. We can consider adding culverts here to offset this problem. This section of the RoW was completely impassible on foot for several years now, and is now passable on foot for the first time in years.

After lunch, we returned and brought the two remaining bridge frames into their final locations. The bridges will be set in their final position and decked later this week.

Lastly, the remaining unsafe bridge, which crossed the washout adjacent to Fred's Rock was removed and the trail was rerouted to go over the tail of the culvert for Rt. 218.

I'm looking forward to carrying on some additional work to get stairs in at the Head Tide Road end, but Sunday's unpleasant weather meant that work will wait for a later date.

Thanks to all who supported this effort: Jason & Eben, Josh, Ian & Toren, Phillip, Pete, Tucker, Sven & Bowen, Johnny and Artie. Of particular note here is that nearly half of the crew is too young to hold a driver's license. That was a great thing to see and I'm glad we can accomodate that.

Take care,
Steve

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Re: April 2023 Work reports
« Reply #42 on: May 02, 2023, 11:15:38 AM »
In regards to the culvert, I think either Dwight or Fred had mentioned that before, we have just never done anything. Maybe I should put it on the to do list..
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