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Track Clearing

Unread postPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 11:49 am
by Allan Kirkpatrick
I noticed over the last several days, that some of the track has been cleared.
Is there something coming up that requires this?

Allan

Re: Track Clearing

Unread postPosted: Sat Feb 01, 2020 8:28 am
by Tom Casper
the end of feburary is the rotary excursion.

Tom C.

Re: Track Clearing

Unread postPosted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 9:28 am
by Karl Strauss
And so they need to remove the snow in the way of the Snow Remover?
Huh.

Re: Track Clearing

Unread postPosted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 9:34 am
by Jack Spencer
At the moment it looks like they are clearing out a few of the points, while 15 idles.

Re: Track Clearing

Unread postPosted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 9:35 am
by Rich Murray
There could of course be other reasons to clear the tracks in the yard. [More than the main has been cleared.] But, for the sake of discussion built up snow is subject to thaw and freeze cycles. Those frozen layers play hell with new equipment, imagine what they could do to a historic rotary.