On Saturday, April 25, volunteers Dwight, Colin, Kendall, Chris, Bruce, Jerod, Nick, Dannis, Abel, Doug and Paul jumped into the work of replacing 5 more ties in our main running track. After rounding up the tools and a stack of ties, we headed out to the work area and were promptly greeted by a passing BNSF train. Some train watching to start the day! Work went smoothly and we had 4 ties all spiked in before lunch.

After a lunch break, with a taco bar provided by Doug, the crew resumed work with some tie plate placement and sinking some spikes back in. We checked another area of track and decided to replace one more tie to support a track joint. It really needed to be done because the tie came out in about six pieces!! After a quick clean up of tools, we did some planning for next weeks work, yep some more ties to replace.

I have included some photos of today’s “track gang” in action.

– Paul

Photos by Paul and Kendall