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I should have stuck this in General Chat but already resized the pictures enough.

Mason/Dixon Troop 400 from Delta PA/Cardiff MD helped me work on our little section of the Ma & Pa (Maryland and Pennsylvania) railroad today. The scouts have helped me many times on the railroad, especially after Hurricane Isabelle, but they also play hard on it too when they are camping at our place. We needed 7 more hours of service time to add to the three hours we did at Philmont to get the 50 Miler award. Here is our rough looking track crew.

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We put in 5 "new" ties, mostly as a learning experience.

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We had a hole from an old derailment repair to fix.

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Cutting a new piece of 80# rail.

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The finished repair, they also cleared some trees and were a lot of help!

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A few little sections of the 84 mile shortline from Baltimore to York are. When the ICC granted permission to abandon the PA portion of the line in 1987 (the Maryland section was abandoned in 1957) we paid the scrapper to leave the rail thru our land, and besides our rail there's only rail at the Baltimore and York yards and another 2-3 mile stretch that's a museum bought by the Ma and PA Preservation Society.
 

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Cool stuff CB, have you considered welding in the new piece of rail and removing the braces for a cleaner natural look?
 

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We considered the many options and quick fixes and settled on this one for now, railroading aint about pretty and us Delta folks like the rough and tumble look that we pull off so well. [8D]
We are gonna come back with the grinder and smooth er off a little.[;)]
 

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