We did a power of work today. However, only managed to remember to take this one very unexciting picture.
Today’s tasks included finishing off the new turntable road we built last week at Castlemaine,we continued to have no end of trouble getting things lined up nicely, however it works excellently one way and given its limited use for short term that’ll be quite adequate.
A weedspray of the yards and depots, plus any odd spots along the track that needed it, was undertaken. It’s reasonably good currently, with only the yards looking untidy.
A stop off at Muckleford was made to correct a few issues with Check Rails – nothing too major, but a few loose bolts were remedied to ensure everything stays within tolerance.
The afternoon was spent tackling signage at Donkey Farm Track, where one Railway Crossing sign was replaced for a much less faded version, while the bolts on the other defeated us so it’s now on the Truck for fixing up at Maldon for reinstatement later in the week.
We won’t have a formal workday tomorrow, as we’ll be spending the day up at Maldon organising our rather enormous chaos after all the recent Castlemaine works – however if anyone is wishing to join us, there will be plenty of odd little tasks to do.
Thursday will be a big preparation day, getting things ready for the big resleepering effort, which, given the poor weather this week, we’ll start on Monday 17th March.
Friday’s are now train running days, so we won’t be holding any formal workdays, anyone previously a Friday gang member would be extremely welcome on Monday or Wednesday as these will be new days that we currently don’t have a lot of volunteers rostered to work.
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