Life on the steel
May. 29th, 2007 05:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqI returned from my long weekend back home to face two fairly heavy 10-hour days back on the site. The weather yesterday was actually quite pleasant for the first time in almost two weeks, and I wish I'd had my camera along. I think the best photo op would have been when we stopped the hi-rail to rescue some baby ducks caught between the rails. The sight of four people in full PPE gear chasing down little yellow ducklings would have made a great shot (well, three people since one of us would have had to hold the camera).
There were no ducklings today, but we did encounter one interloper early this morning.
If I had been a little faster digging out my camera I'd have caught him trucking nonchalantly down the centre of the track.
I snuck my camera out of the truck again to catch a shot of us lifting a rail onto the truck. We cut a 20' section out of this to replace a battered joint a few miles up the track. I'm going to go into more length a bit later about the state of the track in this area, but suffice to say that just replacing a short stretch of rail is quite an ordeal.
There were no ducklings today, but we did encounter one interloper early this morning.
If I had been a little faster digging out my camera I'd have caught him trucking nonchalantly down the centre of the track.
I snuck my camera out of the truck again to catch a shot of us lifting a rail onto the truck. We cut a 20' section out of this to replace a battered joint a few miles up the track. I'm going to go into more length a bit later about the state of the track in this area, but suffice to say that just replacing a short stretch of rail is quite an ordeal.
