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Viewing Album:  Walkersville Southern 2011 Notes
 
By:David Larrabee
Dates:1/29/2011 - 12/31/2011
Album Info:It has been a busy year for the WS Track Crew this year. With some 'new' power tools we've installed several hundred ties in a fraction of the time we'd have needed just a year ago... I've found working on a railroad very satisfying. It's fun to learn about the finer points of what it takes to operate something like this. There's lots of detail to pick up along the way. I suggest your local RR Museum as an out let for your pent up desire to fix, build, or break something. If you're in the Frederick MD area the WS is always looking for folks interested in track, train, or shop practice. /DL
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Keeping the Switches Open
Title:  Keeping the Switches Open
Description:  I used to watch the MEC section crew do this all then time when I was a youngster. Even though the WS isn't running any passenger trains this time of year the shop crew move cars & materials around almost every weekend. /DL
Photo Date:  1/29/2011  Upload Date: 10/17/2011 10:53:27 PM
Location:  Walkersville, MD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Keeping the Switches Open
Title:  Keeping the Switches Open
Description:  I used to watch the MEC section crew do this all then time when I was a youngster. /DL
Photo Date:  1/29/2011  Upload Date: 10/17/2011 10:53:33 PM
Location:  Walkersville, MD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Tie Pile
Title:  Tie Pile
Description:  We used a mix of new and used ties. Its early Spring & were putting supplies aside for the coming years work... (They were nearly all gone by mid summer. There were several more piles behind the camera. /DL
Photo Date:  2/12/2011  Upload Date: 10/17/2011 10:55:45 PM
Location:  Walkersville, MD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Inserting Ties
Title:  Inserting Ties
Description:  The new tie inserter lets a 2 man crew do several dozen ties in an afternoon. This dingus lifts the track up and shoves the new tie in while at the same time pushing the old tie out. The guy on foot clears ballast out of the way and puts the tie plates in the proper attitude to the rail 'n tie before the machine lets the track back down. /DL
Photo Date:  2/12/2011  Upload Date: 10/17/2011 10:57:56 PM
Location:  Walkersville, MD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Inserting Ties just north of MP63
Title:  Inserting Ties just north of MP63
Description:  The new tie inserter lets a 2 man crew do several dozen ties in an afternoon. It was a nice Spring day..... Well Spring form my New England perspective. Winter to the average Marylander...
Photo Date:  2/12/2011  Upload Date: 10/17/2011 10:58:02 PM
Location:  Walkersville, MD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Inserting Ties
Title:  Inserting Ties
Description:  It is all about applying the right force on exactly the right vector. The real goal here isn't so much to get the tie under the track but to do it with out messing up the ballast right under the tie. That way the tie doesn't need as much attention when the tamper comes along, AND doesn't need to be retamped after 6 or 8 trains have passed over the track. /DL
Photo Date:  2/12/2011  Upload Date: 10/17/2011 10:58:08 PM
Location:  Walkersville, MD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Inserting Ties
Title:  Inserting Ties
Description:  Line'er up.
Photo Date:  2/12/2011  Upload Date: 10/17/2011 10:58:15 PM
Location:  Walkersville, MD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Inserting Ties
Title:  Inserting Ties
Description:  In it goes.
Photo Date:  2/12/2011  Upload Date: 10/17/2011 10:58:20 PM
Location:  Walkersville, MD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Inserting Ties
Title:  Inserting Ties
Description:  Just a foot to go.
Photo Date:  2/12/2011  Upload Date: 10/17/2011 10:58:26 PM
Location:  Walkersville, MD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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New Ties
Title:  New Ties
Description:  The finished job. A little raking and a visit by the tamper and its done.
Photo Date:  2/12/2011  Upload Date: 10/17/2011 10:58:33 PM
Location:  Walkersville, MD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Just arrived RRW 33
Title:  Just arrived RRW 33
Description:  New to the WS. The owner is going to recondition the locomotive to its origional PRR 9339 number & livery. /FL
Photo Date:  9/29/2011  Upload Date: 10/17/2011 11:00:28 PM
Location:  Walkersville, MD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  RRW 33(44Tonner)
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RRW 33 waiting for the wire brush
Title:  RRW 33 waiting for the wire brush
Description:  New to the WS. The owner is going to recondition the locomotive to its origional PRR 9339 number & livery. /FL
Photo Date:  9/29/2011  Upload Date: 10/17/2011 11:00:34 PM
Location:  Walkersville, MD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  RRW 33(44Tonner)
Views:  327   Comments: 0
Pulling out old switch timbers
Title:  Pulling out old switch timbers
Description:  We're replacing Switch Timbers today on the north run-around switch. Heavier, longer, & more difficult to get in place, but in the yard the backhoe can speed things up. 3 or 4 of us did 6 or 8 ties in 1 day with spiking later. /DL
Photo Date:  10/1/2011  Upload Date: 10/17/2011 11:02:59 PM
Location:  Walkersville, MD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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New Switch Timbers
Title:  New Switch Timbers
Description:  Were replacing Switch Timbers today. Heavier, longer, more difficult to get in place, but in the yard the backhoe can speed things up. 3 or 4 of us did 6 or 8 ties in 1 day with spiking later. /DL
Photo Date:  10/1/2011  Upload Date: 10/17/2011 11:03:05 PM
Location:  Walkersville, MD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Testing the Switch Timbers
Title:  Testing the Switch Timbers
Description:  Smooth as glass. Well sort of. #45 didn't flex the track much at all. /DL
Photo Date:  10/1/2011  Upload Date: 10/17/2011 11:03:11 PM
Location:  Walkersville, MD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
Locomotives:  WSRR 45(45Tonner)
Views:  289   Comments: 0
The Line up
Title:  The Line up
Description:  RRW 33 (to be come # 9339) with #45 and #101 on what turned out to be a rainy afternoon.
Photo Date:  10/1/2011  Upload Date: 10/17/2011 11:03:17 PM
Location:  Walkersville, MD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
Locomotives:  RRW 33(44Tonner) WSRR 45(45Tonner) WSRR 101(40 Ton)
Views:  745   Comments: 0

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