Category: News
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One More Siding
Ken decided to add the Agua Dulce siding and arrived early to get the switch on the trestle installed. Everybody loves a curved switch on a trestle! A great crew arrived Saturday: Hank and Lil diverted from their winter trip to Florida to come to a couple of meets in Texas that sandwiched our workday.…
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Tying It All Together
Ken showed up early two days early and laid panels around the loop, almost completing it with nearly 60 panels. This is the final loop of phase 1. The workday focused on aligning and setting a bridge and laying the final track panels. At the end of the day, the final fish plate was added…
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Working Around the Lake
Last week brought a lot of progress as we finished the long bridge spans and returned to laying panels on grade. Ken arrived early in the week and finished the bridge ties on the steel spans and then installed the final 16′ of trestle. Bob was busy building panels on Wednesday. John O came out…
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Continued Bridge Work
Mother Nature brought an arctic blast to all of Texas this past week which prompted the annual Houston Area Live Steamers Chugga Chilifest train meet activities to be curtailed. (The county even turned off the water to the park for the first portion of the meet.) Several railroaders from Central Texas opted stay warm by…
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Lift Bridge and Guard Rails
On February 16th and 17th, Stephen spent time welding up the lift bridge frame while John was installing guard rails on the trestle. (The lift bridge mechanism is part of phase 2. It is a stationary span for now.)
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Ties and Rail Added to Trestle
February 8th was another huge day on the Austin & Texas Central. Stephen and Lori had to leave for a funeral, but that didn’t stop everyone else from working on the railroad. The primary goal was to install the bridge ties and rail on the trestle and the crew really came through. Attendees: John O,…
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Prepping the Bridge Ties
This past weekend…
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Switch stands ready
The Tumbleweed and Dry Gulch Railroad found a dozen spare switch stands in inventory and has donated them to the A&TC. (Thanks Philip!)
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Recent Work Day Activities
Thanks to Tim for remembering to take photos!
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Making fish plates
Using Ken’s newly acquired rail slotting punch, Stephen made a jig to create slotted fish plates. It is a piece of scrap rail with the center web removed. Two screws in the rail head keep the rail in position in the punch. Then the raw piece of aluminum bar can be slide into the punch.…