WW&F 2009 fall work weekend - pictures

Stephen Hussar · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:43 am

All, these images were captured this past weekend during the annual fall work session... Enjoy!

Lowering a stick of 60 lb rail into place...

the annual spiking party...

Dana Deering eyeballing the newly put down rail... with museum President Steve Zuppa on the left, and Mr G. Wayne Laepple on the right...

VP Bob Gabriel operating the modified "Big Joe tampiere"

End of day 2...inching ever closer to "Top of the Mountain"

Stephen

Frisco1522 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:07 pm

EXCELLENT! What a group.

Stephen Hussar · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:22 pm

And one more from our Saturday night photo session...
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 317&nseq=0

Stephen

Chris Salmonson · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:58 pm

That is a nice tamper!

G. W. Laepple · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 5:10 pm **Posts:** 1182

The tamper, known as Big Joe, is a totally home-made and engineered machine. Its based on a battery-powered industrial forklift to lift the tamping heads, which are commercially available pneumatic tampers. The most recent modifications provide for pneumatic squeezing of the ballast. The unit is not self-propelled, requiring the services of two or three volunteers to push it along. But it beats the heck out of bar or shovel tamping.

Stephen Hussar · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:40 am

Another scene from the same evening: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 950&nseq=0