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Wednesday, 17 April 2019

On Track at ET Again

Ian & Steve restart the work on the headshunt point
Dennis, Steve & Cameron sliding a check rail .....
..... & dropping it into the chairs
Ian sawing an angled lead in to a check rail
Bill & Steve .....
..... fixing a rail into place
Steve barring a rail to alter the gauge beyond
Sean clearing a hole for a chair screw
Nigel & Bill aligning a track panel ....
..... which Sean jacks up for Cameron to fit fishplates
Sean & Cameron packing a sleeper prior to drilling
Fixing the second curved rail relative to that previously fixed
Barring the rail into a curve & to gauge
Bait time
Fitting a simpler bucket coupler to the new digger
More fixing down
Completing fitting of rails - leaving packing to do
Sean wheeling in a hardwood mounting block
Steve, Sean, Nigel & Geoff fitting point rodding supports
Ian using the muscleman to jack up the offloading siding & slew it into alignment
Ian levelling part of the site .....
...... & loading stored rail onto the bogie

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