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On Aug 31, Dan Parsons, Cameron Bailey, Stephen James, Hans Maurer and Dave Florence fabricated the track needed for Phase 1. Then on Sep 6, Stephen, Dan and Dave dadoed the 300 ties needed; Dan had prepared the 15' x 2" x 2" ties earlier.

Dan, Hans, Cameron, Stephen with Dan's Steam engine in...	Cameron and Dan cut off the 25 4" connectors	Dan drilled the oval hole in the connectors	P1010116-o	Hans and Cameron ground the connectors to fit snugly
Dave pulled the 20' lengths of 1'x3/8 flat iron rails and...	Stephen welded the connectors to the tracks	P1010124	Hans, Cameron and Stephen drilled the other end of the...	P1010118
P1010122	P1010119	Dan made the switch needed to move cars off the main line...	Dan working on a mock-up trestle to display Brian...	Hans doing some of his best work. He led the sweep up...
25 pieces of steel with a welded bracket at one end and a...	Stephen and Dan in production on Sep 6	Dave really did do some of the work earlier.......	One of Dan's cars - coal tender for the steam engine	P8318448-1

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