Today's crew- Fred, Eric, Jonathan, Brendan, Phil and myself (Stewart at Sheepscot again) made more switch progress. Jonathan and Eric made the closure steps while Fred and Phil got the train ready. I got there after my eye appointment, conned Brendan into coming, and off we went. Set the frog and two main rails, drilled holes to bolt and heel space points, bolted up all joints, safety spiked the switch. A lot of this involved staging moves between Alna Center and ToM, and several Ichabod set ups-- all using up time. Forgot the switch layout back in the shop so we left the curve spiking for tomorrow, along with guard rails.
It was a beautiful fall day- perfect for this work. Tomorrow will be less perfect and have a smaller crew- so we'll see what gets done. We are well underway though.
See ya
Jason