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Railfan Pictures of the Week - 10/20/2013
| SEPTA Doylestown Line Schoolhouse Road New Britain PA October 12 2013 |
| The past few weekends the Doylestown Line has been bustituted from Lansdale to Doylestown while the wire train worked between Schoolhouse Road and CP Land. The weekend of October 12-13 the wire train shifted its attention to some work at the Doylestown end, and while that was going on, the track department was doing their thing just north of Schoolhouse. |
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| Shortly after the last train of Friday evening, a pair of Gradalls took to the rails and promptly removed a section and excavated a gap ... |
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| large enough to drive a front-end loader through. There is apparently a drainage problem in this area and they were installing pipe to channel the water through rather than at the ballast. |
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| After each load, they would tamp it down with their new toy: a remote-controlled compactor. |
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| Joystick and batteries included. |
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All pictures October 12 2013 Copyright © 2013 John P. Almeida Photographs for personal use only. All rights reserved by original owner of image. Reproduction or redistribution in any form without express written permission is prohibited. |
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