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| Author: | Stephen Hussar [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | WW&F 2009 fall work weekend - pictures |
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 |
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| Author: | Frisco1522 [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WW&F 2009 fall work weekend - pictures |
EXCELLENT! What a group. |
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| Author: | Stephen Hussar [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WW&F 2009 fall work weekend - pictures |
And one more from our Saturday night photo session... http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 317&nseq=0 Stephen |
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| Author: | Chris Salmonson [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WW&F 2009 fall work weekend - pictures |
That is a nice tamper! |
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| Author: | G. W. Laepple [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WW&F 2009 fall work weekend - pictures |
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. |
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| Author: | Stephen Hussar [ Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WW&F 2009 fall work weekend - pictures |
Another scene from the same evening: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 950&nseq=0 |
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