We took two hopper loads of ballast to the end of the Eastern Extension on Sunday, May 14 to spread out on a thirty foot section of track that we had just put down. Steve Berish is our engineer and Brad Mandeville is our conductor today. Our railroad is still quite short but we are on a major push to build about 300 more feet of track this year.
As Steve brought the train up the hill the Brookville had enough of a load on it to actually blow some of the carbon out of the engine! Usually it barely gets out of idle but the new grade is giving it a workout. You may also notice that our grade crossing signal is too close to the track. That is going to be moved to the other side of the extension fairly soon.
Next we will be spending some time on 58 with an eye toward waking her up for the year very soon.
18 сен 2024
