Rails

The Bends of Time

Largely due to public requests I have decided to post a little about my job. I will not say much, but people seem to be interested in the railroad in general. Mostly I will share photos and footage with you. I think for the most part we know what railways do... but few of us ever get the chance to look at them up close.

These photos are from one such experience. In an effort to escape the office I went with some of the guys to take a look at the other side of our yard. There we have been storing some raw materials. When we get track or ties or spikes we have been putting them there. And when we pull track or ties or spikes off the line we have been putting some back there. All in all it needs some organizing.

So we went over and were looking around. We knew that some of our guys were going to drop off a load of spikes so we stuck around to show them were to go. Then, since we were there, and interested, we stuck around to watch them dump. As usual most of the photos ended up in the photo album.

In this wonderful clip what you don't see is that the train rocks so hard that it actually derails one set of wheels. Evidently that is not a big problem so the guys were very unconcerned and just drove away.

Derailed