On Saturday, March 1, volunteers Dwight Maxey, Bruce Davis, Chris Pollard, Ben Pollard, Colin Mellin, Nick Walker, Doug Milsom and Paul Brown jumped on some track construction work to continue the project started last week. The crew pulled out a couple sticks of old rail and some junk ties that had been used temporarily, and prepped the ground for a few additional ties. After setting that up, we attempted to set a couple of sticks of 90# rail, but found that we need to place 85# rail for the first length before changing to 90#. Anyway, it was an exercise in learning how to move and place rail on top of ties.

After a quick break for lunch, the crew split up, and half worked on the rail, while the other half of the crew got busy knocking dead weeds down and raking/cleaning the area around the tracks. By the end of the day, nearly the entire crew worked until sundown cleaning up the weeds to one collection. Now we just need to hope the wind doesn’t blow!!

Please see the attached pictures for some of the work down on the track construction. Even though removing the weeds is the most important job at the Museum, we were so busy that no pictures were taken. The site is sure starting to look good again.

– Paul