Catskill Mountain Railroad (CMRR) Discussion - 2012

Saturday, April 7th

On Saturday, George Peck plans to continue work on the new switch at MP 24.75 starting at 9am Saturday. He plans to start at Andrew's Lane. Plans are tamping, spiking, and drilling new holes for joint bars, as well as finishing assembling the points and switch mechanisms. George could use a couple extra hands now that all the rail is in place.

Also on Saturday, Earl Pardini plans to open Cornell street yard at 8am. Plans include C9 work and trackwork.


Sunday, April 8th

No crews scheduled because of Easter Sunday.


Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR

The more I watch these boards, the more I want to join in! Unfortunately living 3 hours from the Catskills kind of hinders that. I have been working hard on my website for the Railroads of the Catskill Mountains http://trainweb.org/catskillmtn and I have a page up on the Catskill Mountain Railroad http://www.trainweb.org/catskillmtn/Cat ... ilroad.htm. I welcome anyone's input, suggestions, corrections, and comments. I love what you guys are doing, keep up the great work =D

Richie King

Saturday, April 7th

George Peck, Art Vogel, Dave Heick and Al Johnson continued work on the new switch at MP 24.75. They put all the frog plates in and spiked most of them and inserted plate installations on the main line guard rail. They also tamped the track west of the main line frog and guardrail.

In Kingston, Earl Pardini led a crew that cleared bays 7 and 8 of old timbers and filled in bay 7 with new ties, making 7 bays complete out of 17. The crew included Mark Glaser, Russ Hallock, Walt Otto, and Steve Gollow.

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199292

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199291


Sunday, April 8th

George Peck returned to the switch site with a load of tie plates and laid out more plates to be spiked next weekend.



Monday, April 9th

From Mark Glaser: "The C-9 crew removed old ties from bays 8, 9, and 10 on the bridge at MP 5 today, Ties were fully replaced and fastened in bays 8 and 9 and a new section of rail was hard spiked on the north side. Running rails on the bridge now extend to bay 8 and we have redecked more than half of the truss girder portion of C-9. Today's crew included Earl Pardini, Todd Syska, Steve Gollow and myself, John Patane joined us later in the day."


Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR

Saturday, April 14th

On Saturday, Art Vogel and Dave Heick will lead a crew to spike and tamp the new switch at Andrews lane up to the new points. They will be joined by Win Goodier and Paul Sternitzke who will assist and also lead a brush cutting crew in the area. Bring chain saws if you want to help on brush and cutting trees hitting the train.

In Kingston, Earl Pardini will lead a crew to continue work on bridge C9. They will meet at Cornell Street at 8am. Plans are to complete bays 10 and 11.


Sunday, April 15th

On Sunday, Earl Pardini will again lead a crew to continue work on bridge C9. They will meet at Cornell Street at 9am. Plans are to complete bays 12 and 13.


Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR

Thursday, April 12th

Win Goodier and Todd Syska set on at West Hurley and cleaned the ROW of debris from the Route 28a crosssing to Shokan.


Friday, April 13th

George Peck worked at the new switch at MP 24.75, mostly tamping.


Saturday, April 14th

Win Goodier, Paul Sternitzke, Todd Syska and Bruce Devorkin cleared the ROW of debris from Andrew's lane to MP 23.3. Later they cleared the ROW of debris from West Hurley to the Body Shop crossing at MP 6.29.

Art Vogel, Dave Heick, Bill Brosnan and I tamped the new switch at MP 24.75:

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199459

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199460

In Kingston, from Mark Glaser: "Earl Pardini led a C-9 work group today that included Walt Otto, Gary Lowe and myself. Girders were cleaned and painted and new ties were installed in bays 10 and 11. Another length of rail was hard spiked on the north side. A second crew: Al Schoessow, Bob Blake, Peter Fluchere, and John Patane worked at the bridge in the morning and then replaced 4 timbers at the O&W switch in the afternoon. George Bain visited the bridge project and later worked on the Hi-rail pickup at Cornell St."

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199462

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199463


Sunday, April 15th

From Mark Glaser: "Today in Kingston, Earl Pardini led a bridge crew which included Al Schoessow, Gary Lowe and myself. Bay 12 was completed and two new sections of running rail were spiked down. Three timbers were removed from bay 13. Rails now extend west to the 13th bay and we are within 4 bays (approximately two full work days) of the end of the truss girder section redecking project."

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199464

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199465


Monday, April 16th

On Monday, Earl Pardini led a crew consisting of Al Schoessow, Ray Pollard, and Dave Hilliard. They finished removing timbers from bays 13 and 14, and installed new timbers in bay 13 and part of 14.




Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR

Just curious... I know last year that was a major washout at MP 23.3? It was almost repaired and then Hurricane Irene hit. Whatever happened to that? As I recall Irene made it worse? Did you guys repair that washout or is it a future project?

Airman00,

The damage to MP 23.3 from the Hurricane was included in the County's FEMA application. We will know soon if it will be repaired through that source of funding.

EH

eehiv wrote:Airman00,

The damage to MP 23.3 from the Hurricane was included in the County's FEMA application. We will know soon if it will be repaired through that source of funding.

EH

Is the Boiceville Trestle included in the county's FEMA application?

Saturday, April 21st

On Saturday, George Peck will lead a crew to continue to spike and tamp the new switch at Andrews lane up to the new points.

In Kingston, Earl Pardini will lead a crew to continue work on bridge C9. They will meet at Cornell Street at 8am. Plans are to complete bays 14 and 15.

Al Johnson will continue painting the floor of the 701 starting at 10am at Mt. Tremper. He could use an extra hand or two.


Sunday, April 22nd

The annual CMRR rules class will be held at the Phoenicia station beginning at 9am.



Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR

Saturday April 21st

On Saturday, Al Johnson and Bill Kaba continued work on coach 701.

George Peck, Al Schoessow, Ray Farrell and I continued tamping the new switch at MP 24.75 up to the points, and spiked the frog and south side rail up to the points:

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199637

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199638

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199639

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199641

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199642

In Kingston, Earl Pardini led a crew consisting of Mark Glaser, John Patane, Bob Blake, Jim Bruck, Paul Hintz, Dave Hilliard and John Watson. Al Schoessow helped in the morning to bring extra bridge timbers from Cornell Street. They finished bay 14 and removed ties and prepared bay 15 for installation of new timbers. They also laid out new timbers for the O&W switch.

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199643

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199644

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199645

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=199646


Sunday, April 22nd

No workcrews were scheduled because of the spring rules class.



Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR

Is there going to be a christening ceremony for bridge C9 when the first train crosses it in decades? Surely this event should be celebrated as a victory for the force of volunteers against the forces of entropy.

Russ,

This will be a highly publicized event, of course, but will likely wait until the line is repaired to Highway 209 (MP 5.4) and the railroad cars that are in storage there have been relocated to Cornell Street.

Ernie

Saturday, April 28th

On Saturday, George Peck will lead a crew to continue to spike and tamp the new switch at Andrews lane and finish work on the points. If there are enough for a second crew, George may do tie replacements at Rock Cut.

Al Johnson will continue painting the floor of the 701 starting at 10am at Mt. Tremper. He could use an extra hand of two.

No crews are scheduled for Kingston Saturday.


Sunday, April 29th

No crews are scheduled.


Ernie Hunt
Volunteer Coordinator
CMRR

C9 looks terrific. That is a lot of good work being done.

Ernie, Is the Boiceville Trestle included in the county's FEMA application do you know?

Ernie what is the status of some of the projects CMRR was working on before the floods? I recall the need for additional capacity on both ends of the railroad and all weather capacity (ie, a coachy) in Kingston. There was a switch planned for the Ashokan area and the renovation and moving of a tool house there. There was the planned move of the equipment stored at Route 209 and creating additional capacity at the Cornell St. yard. It is too bad the floods hit when they did, you really had some momentum going there. CMRR must be commended for sticking with it, it shows real dedication.