04-30-2016, 03:53 PM
Saturday photos!
Here's the current state of the future platform area at Fairway.
Lost of ground prep!
Rails were delivered last week to the hydro corridor, just West of Fairway. The trains are really going to fly here! The white truck in the foreground is the Holland Mobile Welder - it's on site here to weld shorter sections of rails, delivered on truck, into long, continuous runs. You can see one of these completed runs heading off into the distance.
At Charles and Stirling, trackwork has continued South, toward the Borden platform!
A close up of a weld between rail segments. This is the first stage of welding two pieces of rail together; all this slag is knocked away and ground down flush, so the seam is... well, seamless! For long, mostly straight runs, or runs with very gentle curvature, the rail is just maneuvered into shape on site. For tighter curves, like here, the rails are pre-rolled to the exact radius required, and have to be assembled in a specific order and location.
Here's the current state of the future platform area at Fairway.
Lost of ground prep!
Rails were delivered last week to the hydro corridor, just West of Fairway. The trains are really going to fly here! The white truck in the foreground is the Holland Mobile Welder - it's on site here to weld shorter sections of rails, delivered on truck, into long, continuous runs. You can see one of these completed runs heading off into the distance.
At Charles and Stirling, trackwork has continued South, toward the Borden platform!
A close up of a weld between rail segments. This is the first stage of welding two pieces of rail together; all this slag is knocked away and ground down flush, so the seam is... well, seamless! For long, mostly straight runs, or runs with very gentle curvature, the rail is just maneuvered into shape on site. For tighter curves, like here, the rails are pre-rolled to the exact radius required, and have to be assembled in a specific order and location.