Category: News
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Working Agua Dulce and San Patricio
We had a great crew at the last workday (May 17). Ken and James installed the final retaining wall in Agua Dulce. Are you getting to know these location names? Doug and Kathy added the final ties in the Austin yard. Bob assembled more panels while Paul cut ties. Lori and Linda put out a big spread…
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Finally, Some Rain
At long last we got some badly needed rain of consequence rather than a quarter inch here and there. After getting over an inch yesterday over the entire day, this morning saw 3 more inches that came down in Texas style – all at once. With the ground saturated, the water was able to completely…
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Another Ballast Day
This past workday on May 3 saw two work trains in operation as ballast and dirt were moved around the railroad. Here is a tour of the railroad from Sunday morning From Tim: From Stephen
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A Little Activity Between Workdays
This past Thursday, John came to continue track levelling to handle ballast trains, staying until sundown. Bob came Sunday and continued building panels for phase 2. Stephen installed more storage tracks in the train shed.
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Ballast and Ties
At the April 19 Workday, the focus was filling in ties and the initial ballasting of all the track past the bridges. Great work! Photos from Stephen: Photos from Tim:
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One More Siding
Ken decided to add the Agua Dulce siding and arrived early to get the switch on the trestle installed. Everybody loves a curved switch on a trestle! A great crew arrived Saturday: Hank and Lil diverted from their winter trip to Florida to come to a couple of meets in Texas that sandwiched our workday.…
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Tying It All Together
Ken showed up early two days early and laid panels around the loop, almost completing it with nearly 60 panels. This is the final loop of phase 1. The workday focused on aligning and setting a bridge and laying the final track panels. At the end of the day, the final fish plate was added…
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Working Around the Lake
Last week brought a lot of progress as we finished the long bridge spans and returned to laying panels on grade. Ken arrived early in the week and finished the bridge ties on the steel spans and then installed the final 16′ of trestle. Bob was busy building panels on Wednesday. John O came out…
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Continued Bridge Work
Mother Nature brought an arctic blast to all of Texas this past week which prompted the annual Houston Area Live Steamers Chugga Chilifest train meet activities to be curtailed. (The county even turned off the water to the park for the first portion of the meet.) Several railroaders from Central Texas opted stay warm by…
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Lift Bridge and Guard Rails
On February 16th and 17th, Stephen spent time welding up the lift bridge frame while John was installing guard rails on the trestle. (The lift bridge mechanism is part of phase 2. It is a stationary span for now.)