Mountain Extension - Official Work Thread

[John Kokas]

Careful Guys!  Don't want to get flagged and sent to the "whimsical" camp again for re-education 

[john d Stone]

It's a nice camp. I always go back there!
Looks like alot of great things going on up there. Hope I can make it up there sometime this fall.

John

[James Patten]

A couple of photos from today.

First, the work train at Top of Mountain after the run-around.


Next, Mike makes good use of the crane to put big pieces into place:

[Mike Fox]

The dozer took a trip to the North end today. I managed to get what I wanted done, though I had to hustle to do it. I would have rather the excavator too for the ditches, but managed to open them up with the dozer.




Loaded and ready to head north.




Running around and getting ready to build the ramp.




There was a skidder road across the ROW here that I had to push back up the bank. Then put the ditch back. Washout is just beyond the white vertical board in the distance. The while board is on the center for that curve.




Looking South toward Top of the Mountain.




Ditches are a little soupy





Both shots looking North





Dozer parked and ready to head south with the diesel. It was getting dark fast, and at 4:30 when I made it back, all outside lights were on.





A little muddy

[Paul Uhland]

Mike, you done some  damn good dirt pushing!
TOM-north ROW work has officially started. 

[john d Stone]

That's an impressive amount of grading done in a very short time! How far is it to the first washout?

[Mike Fox]

650 feet from the current end of track to the leading edge of the washout.

[Bill Baskerville]

Wow, 650 feet of north bound track sounds like a good Fall Work Weekend project for our esteemed track crew team.

Brakie Bill

[Paul Uhland]

How about an excellent SPRING Trackwork Weekend coming up?
Mike does some impressive eyeball grading and ditching.
Just as long as Case-y Jones doesn't get stuck! 

[Dave Crow]

Mike, will the stumps in or near the drainage ditches get pulled out?

[Mike Fox]

Yes Dave. Kubota will handle what I did not get with the dozer. Accept the larger ones. I almost had one on the west slope out, but was digging a hole in the grade so I quit. Trying to keep what we can as it was when the RR was in service.

[James Patten]

Spring work weekend will concentrate on getting the North Yard and the car barn tracks into good shape.  And maybe extending the Woods Track!

[Mike Fox]

[Fred L. Kuhns]

 James or Mike, Will the new siding at the top of TOM be on the west side of the mail line?  Look forward to pictures of woods crew clearing more area.  Fred L. Kuhns

[Joe Fox]

Yes, plans are to build a new siding to serve the future "mills at TOM on the west side, of the main line.