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During the past week, work has been proceeding on numerous fronts at the roundhouse.
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Western Mechanical has almost completed the job of lowering the turntable two inches. In the process we hope that the noise from the centre bearing will be eliminated.
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As can be seen in the above pictures, an electrician's nightmare of conduit now runs below the "patio" surface to stall 17 to connect lighting fixtures to controls in the museum. The two pipes seen being buried in the pictures above are (on the left side) the compressed air feed to the museum and the conduit feeding the locomotive display floodlights located on the turntable.
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The roofers are replacing skin planks above stall 27 while Leon's electricians and dry wallers are all over the place. To add to the hustle and bustle, Steam Whistle started adding three new beer tanks at the rear of stalls 12-14 so we had trucks and cranes, bulldozers and backhoes, forklifts and coffee trucks everywhere.
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As you can witness by clicking on the video below, PNR Railworks have also begun dumping crushed granite under-fill in preparation for track laying which will begin later this week.
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Story and pictures by Michael Guy
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