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Moving The Engine House

(Updated 9/7/2003)

When we first placed the our Engine House (40' shipping container) at the track (see: New Engine House) it was placed as close as possible to the old lead track.  We have since extended the transfer table rail and moved the old lead track to its new location as close as possible to the mainline.  We did this so that we could eventually move the Engine House further West giving us more unloading/parking room on the North side of the transfer table.  On September 6th Chuck Hackett and Jerry Valasek moved the container West to its new location.

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P9060773.jpg (93604 bytes) Digging the hole for the front double tie.
P9060775.jpg (100587 bytes) Setting the rear double tie on ballast and leveling it.
P9060778.jpg (90042 bytes) Both ties in place and and the container has been jacked up onto two full size railroad rails ready to slide the container to its final position.
P9060781.jpg (104096 bytes) In final position and ready for the rails to be removed.
P9060783.jpg (96421 bytes) After the move showing the bare old position (in the shadow of the container) and the two full size rails used to slide the container.
P9060785.jpg (72693 bytes) Final position looking from the Northwest showing its position relative to the new lead track (foreground).

 

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