Last day of 2019 Fall Work Weekend on the WW&F -- Monday, October 14th, 2019
| October 14, 2019 09:57PM |
Some photos from the last day of the WW&F Fall Work Weekend -- Day 4, Monday, October 14th:
Our spiking crew finished up on the track laid the past three days.
But our ties & rail crew laid out more ties and rails today that will require spiking: An additional 140 feet, bringing the weekend's total of new track to over 2,000 feet and our rail head to within 300 feet or so of Route 218. Retired roadmaster Dana Deering (third from left) looks on. Dana directed the spiking this weekend.
Stone ballast was also delivered to both approaches of Trout Brook bridge. No. 9 delivers Maine Narrow Gauge flat 205 loaded with the first load of ballast south of the bridge as Jason Lamontagne directs the move along with Dave Buczkowski.
Volunteers start to shovel off ballast from 205 south of the bridge.
Later in the day, No. 9 brought both 205 and WW&F flatcar 118 loaded with ballast. Volunteers emptied the cars on the north approach to the bridge.
A view of No. 9 on the north side of the bridge as the ballast was unloaded.
Conductor Bill Baskerville of Virginia checks in with dispatcher Ed Lecuyer in Sheepscot 3+ miles away through the phone post just north of the bridge for orders on next train movements.
Before I left to return home in Massachusetts, I checked our volunteer log for the weekend. The volunteer counts for the weekend look like museum records to me:
Friday: 87
Saturday: 117
Sunday: 98
Monday: 52.
I understand the new track will be ballasted, lifted, leveled and lined in 2020, with the 2020 Fall Work Weekend focused on construction of the runaround at 218. A public opening of the extension is planned in 2021.
Our spiking crew finished up on the track laid the past three days.
But our ties & rail crew laid out more ties and rails today that will require spiking: An additional 140 feet, bringing the weekend's total of new track to over 2,000 feet and our rail head to within 300 feet or so of Route 218. Retired roadmaster Dana Deering (third from left) looks on. Dana directed the spiking this weekend.
Stone ballast was also delivered to both approaches of Trout Brook bridge. No. 9 delivers Maine Narrow Gauge flat 205 loaded with the first load of ballast south of the bridge as Jason Lamontagne directs the move along with Dave Buczkowski.
Volunteers start to shovel off ballast from 205 south of the bridge.
Later in the day, No. 9 brought both 205 and WW&F flatcar 118 loaded with ballast. Volunteers emptied the cars on the north approach to the bridge.
A view of No. 9 on the north side of the bridge as the ballast was unloaded.
Conductor Bill Baskerville of Virginia checks in with dispatcher Ed Lecuyer in Sheepscot 3+ miles away through the phone post just north of the bridge for orders on next train movements.
Before I left to return home in Massachusetts, I checked our volunteer log for the weekend. The volunteer counts for the weekend look like museum records to me:
Friday: 87
Saturday: 117
Sunday: 98
Monday: 52.
I understand the new track will be ballasted, lifted, leveled and lined in 2020, with the 2020 Fall Work Weekend focused on construction of the runaround at 218. A public opening of the extension is planned in 2021.
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