Interesting day at work.......

[ckrb2007]

As many of you know, there was a large train de-railment up in Severn Falls this week. As "luck" would have it, the accident wiped out one of our fibre optic huts so myself along with 3 others co-workers got the call to head up there and splice together a by-pass cable to get several high priority customers back up and running. I have to say, I've never seen such carnage. It was bizarre seeing rail cars twisted and torn open like sardine cans. Anyways, here are a few pics from the day.

 

Our crew rolling up on site.

 

 

Our hut took a beating.

 

 

Carnage.

 

 

More Carnage.

 

 

Randy and I setting up our work area.

 

 

Me splicing.

 

 

A grain car....took them all day to vaccuum the grain out.

 

 

One of the many massive machines laying tracks.

 

[Nemo]

Cool pics. Thanks for sharing. I do alot of network build outs. Glad you got it spliced up again.

[NAW]

Thanks for posting these pics man.

 

Thankfully it wasn't one of those -20° days eh!

[Billy Bob]

That was my job on the railroad for 30 years....to re-rail freight cars and engines by either pulling them back on or lifting them back on...then repairing them once they made it back into the shop......made a LOT of overtime doing that but it usually was in the worst weather you could imagine.

 

I was the driver for our 90 ton Pettibone over the road crane and derrick engineer for our 250 ton over the rail steam crane. But I also sometimes worked as the cook when the steam crane went out. As cook I did more work but I always enjoyed cooking, plus I stayed WARM in the winter.

[ckrb2007]

Thanks for posting these pics man.

 

Thankfully it wasn't one of those -20° days eh!

 

no kidding!! It was acually nice out that day!

[Dozer]

Cool pictures, thanks for posting that

[Dutchy]

Those are excellent pics.