Team Track & Transload Tuesday : 06-23-2020

One from my archives... 

The Valley Mail Train arrived a few hours behind schedule which allowed for some rare daylight viewing of the unloading and sorting process.

A steady increase of e-commerce deliveries has increased the number of USPS cars finding their way to Everett. Rather than clogging up operation at the Team Track & Community Park, the railway reopened the old Everett Team Track.

Pat Donahoe is the Valley's USPS Manager of Customer Expectations. It is his job to help residents understand that packages can occasionally be damaged in the shipping process.

Without his skillful work, folks might unreasonably expect every delivery to arrive on time and undamaged. Mike uses time proven methods to bring awareness to the difficulties faced by the nation's logistic workers.

Home from school, and seeing that his new Lionel swing bridge had arrived in a mangled shipping box, it was time for little Billy to learn one of life's difficult lessons:

"I know it's hard son, but you're seven-years-old now. It's time we had a talk about  managing your expectations."

Happy TT&TT

Very humorous Thomas

More from the archives

Bob

IT's TT & TT!  That story is quite a chuckle Thomas!  Thanks for launching activity on the team track today!!  RSJB - Love that old crane! 

June seems to have my focus on MOW workers as they go about doing summery chores on the Free State Junction Railway.  Today on the Mountain Division at Danlillu Crossing team track, a freshly painted Western Maryland bunk car ( former troop sleeper ) has been spotted along with a Ma&Pa water car carrying drinking water and of course water for showers.  After all,  this is home away from home this week for all these hard working fellas. 

There's word of a thunder storm just to the other side of the mountains, and workers scurry to get equipment put away before the down pour of rain begins. 

Homer, the welder, does not seem too concerned.  Heck, he might even like getting wet! 

Ernie, in blue and standing in the doorway, yells to Bert ... " Make sure that valve is open all the way on the water car!" 

Scurry on fellas!  That storm will be here in a New York minute!

Moments before the cloud burst!  

New furniture for the Railway's head office arrived this week via the Everett Team Track. The railway's purchasing agent got a great deal on some new-old-stock.

The team over at the W.B. Mason company, surprised to finally be rid of this old junk, excited about taking on a new customer, included free assembly and install.

Railway employees are super excited abut the new modern look of their work space.

Meanwhile, over in Plasticville.... (from my little trainiacs)

Lots of barrels are being delivered to the team track. 

NS Police checking out something.