{"id":33797,"date":"2022-07-06T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=33797"},"modified":"2022-07-05T19:45:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T23:45:22","slug":"workin-on-the-railroad-ballasting-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/workin-on-the-railroad-ballasting-the-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Workin’ on the railroad; Ballasting the Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A few weeks ago, I accompanied the Conway Scenic Railroad ballast train on its journey up the Mountain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had multiple things on my agenda: we needed a accurate accessment of where ballast was needed for future trips; I wanted to inspect the limits of some recent slow orders; I’m looking to rework the company Timetable and was checking various aspects of the right-of-way; and I wanted to photograph the ballast train crew at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many years ago, I traveled with a branch line ballast train in Ireland, where the locomotive driver said to me, “My crew, they’re allergic to work!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing could further from the truth with Conway Scenic’s work train crew. Dumping stone is a physically taxing job and not for the faint of heart. Our guys put 110 percent of effort into the job and earn every dime of their pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By contrast, all I had to do was run along with the train, make notes and expose digital photos\u2014a few of which I’ve posted here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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