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Joe Land

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Section Gang
« on: February 14, 2012, 10:59:37 am »
Section gang working at Bedford  August 1963. Lloyd Kimble photo.
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Mike Lehman

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Re: Section Gang Bedford 1963
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2012, 10:37:09 pm »
Joe,
Looks like it's street trackage or a crossing maybe? Interesting photo that illustrates how much manual human labor it took to maintain the line.
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Re: Section Gang Bedford 1963
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2012, 10:40:04 pm »
We tend to overlook how important the track crew's work was to keeping the trains on the rails.
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Re: Section Gang
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2012, 01:35:00 pm »
A very well maintained section house. Anyone recognize the location?
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Re: Section Gang
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2012, 03:55:26 pm »
Section gang working on the right of way. Mid to late 50's, anyone recognize the location??
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Tim T Swan

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Re: Section Gang Bedford 1963
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2012, 09:46:08 pm »
Quote from: Mike Lehman on February 14, 2012, 10:37:09 pm
Joe,
Looks like it's street trackage or a crossing maybe? Interesting photo that illustrates how much manual human labor it took to maintain the line.
Yes it's street trackage.  The mainline on J Street at about 14th, about 2 blocks north of the Bedford depot.
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Re: Section Gang
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2012, 06:27:10 pm »
Tom,

We called them 'Car houses'
Thats where we kept our motor cars.
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Re: Section Gang
« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2012, 09:14:48 pm »
I guess I'm the one who labeled that section house Mark.  I grew up on the PM and C&O, and they called them section houses.  / Ron
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