Track Gang Near Cloverdale

[Tom Kepshire]

Monon section gang working North of Cloverdale. No date is listed.

Middle Photo: Paul Williams and William Pritchett working on Section Gang north of Cloverdale. Unknown year.

Bottom Photo: Section Gang working North of Cloverdale. All photos Mike Hargesheimer Collection.

[Tom Kepshire]

Loren Cooper & Oval "Huts" Neideffer... also went by "Hutch" part of Section Gang working near Cloverdale. Could the bridge be the Highway 40 or Interstate 70 bridge??

Middle Photo: Moto & Slim Roberts on Section Gang.

Bottom Photo: Lunch time.  Mike Hargesheimer Collection.

[George Lortz]

Tom,

US 40 bridge would be a good guess.  The photos appear to be too old for it to be I-70.  This would put the site immediately south of Putnamville, which is on US 40.

George L.
 

[Tom Kepshire]

I sort of had that inkling too George. The terrain looked like Putnamville.  This is a nice series of photos. I hope I can get Mike to allow Ron to re-scan them for our Archives.

[Ron Marquardt]

That's a great series of pictures.  Sure be great if we had some names.  / Ron

[Gene Remaly]

I always thought "the section" did the every day maintenance things in their section. This looks like a "track gang" complete with camp cars, including diner, shower car, crane, and heave track machines.

[Ken Weller]

Here is what I have so far on the names mentioned by Tom Kepshire:

Williams   Paul         EG #1 Trackman at Linden   8/6/48 - 1960s?      injured on job; picture near Cloverdale

Pritchett   William         Extra Gang Foreman (around Paoli?)   1942 - 12/10/56      group photo; lived around Paoli? Roadmaster?

Cooper   Loren         M of W Welder (at Orleans?)   5/14/64 - 1971+   b. 1/9/14   lived at Orleans

Neideffer   Oral   M   Hutch/Huts   Maint Sup. in Roadway Dept, Laf.   8/1/27 - 7/31/71      Oval?; lived in Lafayette

Roberts   Moto?      Moto?   section gang near Cloverdale   1960s?      picture

Roberts         Slim   section gang near Cloverdale   1960s?      picture

Any corrections or further info will be appreciated.

[Tom Kepshire]

Per a suggestion by Gene Remaly, I renamed the thread, Track Gang. My original label was because that is what Mike called the pictures. I believe his relatives were on the gang.

[Ron Marquardt]

In railroad parlance they were both track gangs.  The section gangs worked out of sectionhouses and did maintenance work in their particular sections, and the extra gangs lived in camp cars and did heavier work all over the system.  / Ron

PS, Ken, do you have the photos matched up with the names?

[Vern Sargent]

It can't be Putnamville guys, as the track under U. S. 40 is a curve, and I don't think there was ever a siding under the bridge. The I-70 bridge was built in 1966 or 67.  Vern @ G.