Another Productive Saturday by our Roundhouse Work Crew - Part 2!

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After completing the work described yesterday and a well earned lunch break, all hands engaged in miniature track building. As shown in an earlier posting here, the miniature railway will operate on a track in a "figure 8" configuration requiring the construction of a crossing. This was completed and the new crossing is now on the floor with twenty feet of track on either side of it. This is a trial assembly to prove our assembly methods and check the crossing. We tested the crossing with our big miniature "CN" F7 diesel locomotive.

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Everyone who wanted to run the locomotive up and down the track listening to the "clunk-clunk clunk-clunk" noise as it went over the crossing. In the pictures above, we capture the action as the crew tests the crossing. But you had to be there to hear it!
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It was a good day and a lot of fun.

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Story by Michael Guy; Photos by Lance Gleich