You guys are tough eggs. That is not a dead carcass behind the sign. That is volunteer roadside trash/litter pickup crews collection. The volunteer groups are instructed to leave the bags of trash and a truck follows up removing them.
“There is nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.”
– General Jimmy Doolittle
More track work today. Another 120 feet gauged and spiked. We have reached the second crossing. These are secret spy pics. The RR doesn’t want pictures posted even though anyone driving by can see the work progress.
I don’t see a thing…
Thanks for posting the great shot for us, and perhaps taking the spank for it. Good luck.
So Jon, how much weight have you lost out working in the hot sun?
Al p.
Our favorite restaurant is across the street!
I thought you weren’t on Facebook. Marconi must have sent you those!
I’m not and guess again!
I’m not sure Al. I haven’t been on the scale since we left CT. I do know that I’m starting to fit back into my pre-COVID clothes 
My sugar has been real good since we started packing too!
Yesterday a small group of the track volunteers spent the morning emulating DOT workers as we watched the two full time track employees tamp and regulate the ballast until the track through the crossing was perfect.
After lunch the volunteers set rubber crossing cushions against the rail and helped get the clips in place…
While we were working, we heard 16 blow for the Rt. 475 crossing. It ran a short, light test run, then back in the roundhouse hot. We missed it!
I wasn’t able to hang around today as we went to Altoona to get our PA drivers licenses. It was in the yard smoking when we got home but I never heard it move. It was back in the roundhouse by mid afternoon when I drove by on my way to check out the paving job on the crossing…
This weekend I’m on on the box car restoration crew helping to rough in the electric inside the car which is being transformed internally to a mobile work shop.
P.S. Please do not re-post any of the track photos anywhere. I got another email reminder of the photo blackout.
He’s not just working on track. . . .
(From the latest FEBT Newsletter.) I strongly suggest anyone interested in the E.B.T. join the Friends.
it’s starting to feel like a job! 5 days over two weekends on the combine and boxcar plus another 4. or 5 (I lost count) building track. Two days this weekend on the boxcar then Tuesday and maybe Thursday finishing a track to the bridge then 1 more day to prep the second crossing. By then it will be time for another work weekend!
But this is why I moved here 
Back at it today. We stood around all morning waiting for the excavation of the second driveway and leveling of the roadbed. After lunch we did manage to get one rail down to the crossing and the other gauged for one stick. Back at it again in the morning.
During our lunch break I caught 16 with her test train passing the ice cream stand. She ran several trips to the grove and back plus at least one southbound as far as McCoy Rd. She was put away hot but no word on if it will run on the regular trains tomorrow.
Well Jon,
The Rockhill Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery is closed but we need to have a discussion on where you would like to go cause you ain’t moving and I’ll see that Shawn V carries it out for ya’.
I’m not supposed to post pictures of the track work but I don’t think this counts. I found this “core” from the drill that makes joint bar holes in the web of the rail interesting…
Interesting Jon. My thought was they would use a drill bit for them, but clearly a hole saw type tool produced that 
