SPRING WORK PT1

Spring time is a time of work for the railroads, and the AP&W is no exception...

Work on the parking lot commences, along with a few utility upgrades. Here, a small tracked dump machine is being used for moving dirt around the site.

The utility truck and excavator sit at the end of the drive. Underground fiber optic cables are being replaced in the area, an upgrade that will provide faster internet service to the people of Hillsdale!

After the utility work is finished, the crew bus shows up for the rail work in the area.

Several dump cars loaded with rip-rap sit next to loaded woodchip hoppers.

At the other end, is a flatcar loaded with an excavator.

The excavator will be used to help shore up the right-of-way along the Youghiogheny river, including replacing rip-rap along the banks. (And yes, the flatcar gained reporting marks and data between photographs! What an improved RR shop can do...)

Jordan spreader X784 gets prepped for work. The venerable unit was built in the 1950's, but still gets the job done, both plowing snow (in the winter) and re-cutting drainage ditches (in the spring and after heavy rains). More on X784 next week.