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 Post subject: CMRR Volunteer Workdays - 3/31, 4/1
PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:05 pm 

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Saturday, March 31st

On Saturday, George Peck plans to continue work on the new switch at MP 24.75 starting at 9am Saturday. He plans to start at Andrew's Lane. Plans are to finish the main line segment - this means tamping, spiking, and drilling new holes for joint bars, as well as assembling the points and switch mechanisms. George could use a couple extra hands now that all the rail is in place.

Also on Saturday, Earl Pardini plans to open Cornell street yard at 8am. Plans include C9 work and trackwork.

Sunday, April 1st

On Sunday, George Peck plans to continue work on the new switch at MP 24.75 starting at 9:00am. He plans to start at Andrew's Lane. As on Saturday, George could use many extra hands to get the switch in operation.

On Sunday, Earl Pardini plans to open Cornell Street yard at 10am. Plans include C9 work, trackwork, and equipment repair.


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 Post subject: CMRR Work Report - 3/31, 4/1, 4/2
PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:17 am 

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Saturday, March 31st.

At Mt. Tremper, George Peck, Art Vogel and Dave Heick continued work on the new Longyear switch. They continued installing joint bars, cut the remaining piece of rail, and moved equipment over the switch (main only) for the first time.

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199180

In Kingston, Earl Pardini, Dave Hilliard and Peter Fluchere did more work on bridge C9.

Sunday, April 1st.

George Peck started installing slide plates at the new west end switch.

In Kingston, Mark Glaser writes: "On Sunday 4-1, Earl Pardini continued work on the C-9 project clearing the fifth bay of old ties, needlescaled and painted the underlying girders and set in four new bridge ties. Ernie Klopping, Walt Otto,and Mark Glaser worked @ Cornell St. Yard on the tamper, hook bolt restoration (for C-9), and did repairs on the Hi-rail MOW truck."

Monday, April 2nd

Mark Glaser writes: "The C-9 crew returned to the bridge on Monday; today's group including: Earl Pardini,Todd Syska, Ray Pollard, Dave Hilliard, Steve Gollow and myself. Three structural bays were redecked-26 bridge ties installed-and additional single lengths of running rail were installed and spiked down on the north and south side. We are nearing the halfway point on the truss girder portion of the bridge."

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 Post subject: CMRR Volunteer Workdays - 4/7, 4/8
PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 1:14 am 

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Saturday, April 7th

On Saturday, George Peck plans to continue work on the new switch at MP 24.75 starting at 9am Saturday. He plans to start at Andrew's Lane. Plans are tamping, spiking, and drilling new holes for joint bars, as well as finishing assembling the points and switch mechanisms. George could use a couple extra hands now that all the rail is in place.

Also on Saturday, Earl Pardini plans to open Cornell street yard at 8am. Plans include C9 work and trackwork.


Sunday, April 8th

No crews scheduled because of Easter Sunday.


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 Post subject: CMRR Work Report - 4/7, 4/8, 4/9
PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:39 am 

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Saturday, April 7th

George Peck, Art Vogel, Dave Heick and Al Johnson continued work on the new switch at MP 24.75. They put all the frog plates in and spiked most of them and inserted plate installations on the main line guard rail. They also tamped the track west of the main line frog and guardrail.

In Kingston, Earl Pardini led a crew that cleared bays 7 and 8 of old timbers and filled in bay 7 with new ties, making 7 bays complete out of 17. The crew included Mark Glaser, Russ Hallock, Walt Otto, and Steve Gollow.

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199292

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199291


Sunday, April 8th

George Peck returned to the switch site with a load of tie plates and laid out more plates to be spiked next weekend.



Monday, April 9th

From Mark Glaser: "The C-9 crew removed old ties from bays 8, 9, and 10 on the bridge at MP 5 today, Ties were fully replaced and fastened in bays 8 and 9 and a new section of rail was hard spiked on the north side. Running rails on the bridge now extend to bay 8 and we have redecked more than half of the truss girder portion of C-9. Today's crew included Earl Pardini, Todd Syska, Steve Gollow and myself, John Patane joined us later in the day."


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 Post subject: CMRR Volunteer Workdays - 4/14, 4/15
PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:01 am 

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Saturday, April 14th

On Saturday, Art Vogel and Dave Heick will lead a crew to spike and tamp the new switch at Andrews lane up to the new points. They will be joined by Win Goodier and Paul Sternitzke who will assist and also lead a brush cutting crew in the area. Bring chain saws if you want to help on brush and cutting trees hitting the train.

In Kingston, Earl Pardini will lead a crew to continue work on bridge C9. They will meet at Cornell Street at 8am. Plans are to complete bays 10 and 11.


Sunday, April 15th

On Sunday, Earl Pardini will again lead a crew to continue work on bridge C9. They will meet at Cornell Street at 9am. Plans are to complete bays 12 and 13.


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 Post subject: CMRR Work Report - 4/13 to 4/16
PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:09 am 

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Thursday, April 12th

Win Goodier and Todd Syska set on at West Hurley and cleaned the ROW of debris from the Route 28a crosssing to Shokan.


Friday, April 13th

George Peck worked at the new switch at MP 24.75, mostly tamping.


Saturday, April 14th

Win Goodier, Paul Sternitzke, Todd Syska and Bruce Devorkin cleared the ROW of debris from Andrew's lane to MP 23.3. Later they cleared the ROW of debris from West Hurley to the Body Shop crossing at MP 6.29.

Art Vogel, Dave Heick, Bill Brosnan and I tamped the new switch at MP 24.75:

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199459

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199460

In Kingston, from Mark Glaser: "Earl Pardini led a C-9 work group today that included Walt Otto, Gary Lowe and myself. Girders were cleaned and painted and new ties were installed in bays 10 and 11. Another length of rail was hard spiked on the north side. A second crew: Al Schoessow, Bob Blake, Peter Fluchere, and John Patane worked at the bridge in the morning and then replaced 4 timbers at the O&W switch in the afternoon. George Bain visited the bridge project and later worked on the Hi-rail pickup at Cornell St."

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199462

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199463


Sunday, April 15th

From Mark Glaser: "Today in Kingston, Earl Pardini led a bridge crew which included Al Schoessow, Gary Lowe and myself. Bay 12 was completed and two new sections of running rail were spiked down. Three timbers were removed from bay 13. Rails now extend west to the 13th bay and we are within 4 bays (approximately two full work days) of the end of the truss girder section redecking project."

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199464

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199465


Monday, April 16th

On Monday, Earl Pardini led a crew consisting of Al Schoessow, Ray Pollard, and Dave Hilliard. They finished removing timbers from bays 13 and 14, and installed new timbers in bay 13 and part of 14.




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 Post subject: CMRR Volunteer Workdays - 4/21, 4/22
PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:35 am 

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Saturday, April 21st

On Saturday, George Peck will lead a crew to continue to spike and tamp the new switch at Andrews lane up to the new points.

In Kingston, Earl Pardini will lead a crew to continue work on bridge C9. They will meet at Cornell Street at 8am. Plans are to complete bays 14 and 15.

Al Johnson will continue painting the floor of the 701 starting at 10am at Mt. Tremper. He could use an extra hand of two.


Sunday, April 22nd

The annual CMRR rules class will be held at the Phoenicia station beginning at 9am.



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 Post subject: CMRR Work Report - 4/21, 4/22
PostPosted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:36 am 

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Saturday April 21st

On Saturday, Al Johnson and Bill Kaba continued work on coach 701.

George Peck, Al Schoessow, Ray Farrell and I continued tamping the new switch at MP 24.75 up to the points, and spiked the frog and south side rail up to the points:

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199637

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199638

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199639

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199641

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199642

In Kingston, Earl Pardini led a crew consisting of Mark Glaser, John Patane, Bob Blake, Jim Bruck, Paul Hintz, Dave Hilliard and John Watson. Al Schoessow helped in the morning to bring extra bridge timbers from Cornell Street. They finished bay 14 and removed ties and prepared bay 15 for installation of new timbers. They also laid out new timbers for the O&W switch.

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199643

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199644

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199645

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199646


Sunday, April 22nd

No workcrews were scheduled because of the spring rules class.



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 Post subject: Re: Catskill Mountain Railroad News - 2012
PostPosted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:25 am 

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Nice work on the C9 bridge deck. I'm curious about why the spacing is so close on the bridge timbers; usually there is more space between them.

What is the condition of the structural steel and the abutments/piers? Once the deck is renewed, is C9 passable for train operation?

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 Post subject: Re: Catskill Mountain Railroad News - 2012
PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:03 am 

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Howard,

The new timbers were thicker than the old, so although we placed the same number as before, the space between timbers got closer.

The bridge has been inspected by a bridge engineer and found to be structurally sound, as well as the foundations. Some minor structural work needs to be done, but it is easily within our abilities.

We plan to extend our ride 4/10ths mile to MP 5.4 as part of this extension. This will also allow us to bring our coaches long in storage west of Kingston back for repairs at Cornell Street. This will include the ex-NYC heavyweight diner "Lion Gardiner" which will likely be scrapped.

We hope to open the bridge to worktrains by summer, and have the whole extension operable by the fall.

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 Post subject: CMRR Volunteer Workdays - 4/28, 4/29
PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:24 am 

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Saturday, April 28th

On Saturday, George Peck will lead a crew to continue to spike and tamp the new switch at Andrews lane and finish work on the points. If there are enough for a second crew, George may do tie replacements at Rock Cut.

Al Johnson will continue painting the floor of the 701 starting at 10am at Mt. Tremper. He could use an extra hand of two.

No crews are scheduled for Kingston Saturday.


Sunday, April 29th

No crews are scheduled.


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 Post subject: CMRR Work Report - 4/28, 4/29
PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:55 pm 

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Saturday, April 28th

On Saturday, George Peck, Al Schoessow, Greg Peck, Art Vogel and Dick Wilhelm continued work on the new switch at MP 24.75. They spiked the north rail all the way from the frog to the points, inserted stone in the points area, and bent the stock rail (see photo below):

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199821

Also on Saturday, Al Johnson continued work on coach 701, and John Patane and George Bain brought two new picnic tables to Mt. Tremper as well as two file cabinets for the office there.


Sunday, April 29th

George Peck and Al Schoessow continued work tamping the switch points at the new switch at MP 24.75.

George Bain and Robert Shuman worked at Mt. Tremper preparing for opening next month.

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 Post subject: CMRR Volunteer Workdays - 5/5, 5/6
PostPosted: Wed May 02, 2012 11:26 pm 

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Saturday, May 5th

On Saturday, George Peck will lead a crew to finish the switch at MP 24.75. Goal is to have it in service by the end of the day.

In Kingston, Earl Pardini will lead a crew to continue work on bridge C9. They will meet at Cornell Street at 8am. Plans are to complete bays 15 and 16.

Al Johnson will continue cleaning the floor of the 701 in preparation for painting starting at 10am at Mt. Tremper. He could use an extra hand or two.

George Bain plans to a lead special work detail meeting at the Mount Tremper Station at 9:00am Saturday to prepare the station for opening day. Tasks include interior and exterior trim and touch-up painting, staining the new picnic tables, shelf building and carpentry repairs to the loading ramp, site cleanup, and some gardening. Volunteers are asked to bring the appropriate tools and safety equipment for their preferred jobs, as well as any other tools or materials that they feel could be of use. Please contact George Bain if you have any questions.


Sunday, May 6th

On Sunday, George Peck will lead a crew to finish the switch at MP 24.75 if it is not completed Saturday, then start working on the siding.

In Kingston, Earl Pardini will lead a crew to continue work on bridge C9. They will meet at Cornell Street at 9am. Plans are to complete installing new timbers on the truss.


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 Post subject: CMRR Work Report - 5/5, 5/6, 5/7
PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2012 11:16 pm 

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Saturday, May 5th

On Saturday, George Peck, Al Schoessow, Dave Heick, Dick Wilhelm and I continued work on the switch at MP 24.75. Most of the switch was spiked and it is nearly ready for service.

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=200019

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=200020

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=200021

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=200022

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=200023

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=200024

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=200025

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=200026


Al Johnson and George Bain worked in Mt. Tremper on the 701 and getting the Mt. Tremper station ready for service.

In Kingston, Mark Glaser writes: "The C-9 crew installed new ties in bays 15 and 16 of the Esopus Creek bridge at MP 5.0. Old wood was cabled out of bay 17 and the girders painted. By the end of the day, the crew had reached and began to clear brush and debris from the truss girder bridge section's west pier. Saturday's group included Earl Pardini, John Watson, John Patane, John Prestopino, and myself."

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=200074

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=200027

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=200028

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=200029


Sunday, May 6th

At the switch at MP 24.75, George Peck installed the throw-rod on the points for the new switch.

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=200043

In Kingston, Earl Pardini led a crew consisting of John Patane, Al Shoessow, Bob Blake and Walt Otto. They installed 5 ties in bay 17 and removed about 9 inches of extra steel from the ends of the truss stringers in order to allow the bridge to move freely along its rollers.

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=200044

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=200045


Monday, May 7th

On Monday, the C9 crew consisted of Earl Pardini, Dave Hilliard, Al Schoessow, and George Peck. They finished installing the remaining bridge timbers in bay 17 of the truss, plus the first two on the girder bridge. They also removed 8 timbers on the girder bridge and needlescaled and painted the surface in preparation for the installation of the next round of timbers. They also installed another rail in the truss section of C9.


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 Post subject: CMRR Volunteer Workdays - 5/12, 5/13
PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2012 10:12 am 

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Saturday, May 12th

All hands to Mt. Tremper! We have lots of work to do to get the line, coaches, and station open and ready for the public in 2 weeks. Unless you are part of the core 4-man C9 crew, all volunteers should report to Mt. Tremper Saturday to help with trackwork, painting coach 701, or general station cleanup:

Longyear Switch. On Saturday, George Peck will lead a crew to finish the switch at MP 24.75 starting at 9am at Andrew's Lane. He will be installing the switch stand, drilling the remaining bolts, completing spiking the guard rails, tamping, and laying out ties for the siding. George can use as many extra hands as possible as opening day is only 2 weeks away.

Coach 701. Al Johnson will continue cleaning the floor of the 701 in preparation for painting starting at 10am at Mt. Tremper. He could use an extra hand or two.

Mt. Tremper Station. George Bain plans to a lead special work detail meeting at the Mount Tremper Station at 9:00am Saturday to prepare the station for opening day. Tasks include interior and exterior trim and touch-up painting, staining the new picnic tables, shelf building and carpentry repairs to the loading ramp, site cleanup, and some gardening. Volunteers are asked to bring the appropriate tools and safety equipment for their preferred jobs, as well as any other tools or materials that they feel could be of use. Please contact George Bain if you have any questions.

C9 Bridge. In Kingston, Earl Pardini will lead a crew to continue work on bridge C9. They will meet at Cornell Street at 8am. Plans are to start work replacing timbers on the first girder bridge, now that the truss is finished. Earl only needs three others for this work - all others should go to Mt. Tremper.



Sunday, May 13th

On Sunday, George Peck will lead a crew at 9am to finish the switch at MP 24.75 if it is not completed Saturday, then start working on the siding.

In Kingston, no work is planned due to Mother's day.


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