Track Gang at Work Replacing Rail and Ties

Up close action with the track gang today working to replace some worn
out rails. We will be moving rail with a grapple truck and setting rail in place, some
windmill spiking, cutting rail and we gonna pull and insert some ties.

Our railroad contractor Frontier Railroad Services came today to help.
With the limited track time we had, we replaced 5 1/2 sticks of rail,
made 3 thermite welds and replaced 10 ties. A pretty good days accomplishment!

Everyone did a fantastic job. We are lucky to have them come out and
help us and with only 2 of us here that work track, we really appreciate when they do.
Frontier does very good work and are very reliable. They are based in
New Stanton Pa. about an hour from us.

See also video on How Thermite Welding is done:
   • Shooting a Thermite Weld on the Railr...  

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Made Oct. 30 2021