On Saturday, July 8, Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Bryan Tong, Kendall Crouch and Paul Brown accomplished quite a lot of work despite the very humid conditions. We started out by removing the 4th of July decorations from the cabooses and storing them away. Then we gathered some tools and supplies, and headed out to replace two cross-ties in our main running track. We found one old tie completely disintegrated, and the second only about half there, so it’s a good thing we did the work today. After setting the spikes and cleaning up, we headed to the shop for a well deserved lunch break.

After lunch, we removed one of the drive tires off of the Case Tractor so it can be repaired, and then we decided to work on placing sticks of rail up next to the base of our perimeter fence. This is heavy rail and should help protect the base of the fence. After breaking a pretty good sweat, the crew decided it was time to tie up. The humidity was just getting to be a bit much.

Please check out the photos to see the two big activities from today.

– Paul