This month with the aid of Cy Martin's camera, we have a
picture of Lead Welder Nico Araiza rebuilding the point and
wing rails of a frog in one of the Bowl track switches.Nico has been our welder here since Web Forenza retired. Nico was out of the Frog Pond, his regular home in the Ford Hopkins Compound for a little extra duty with me.
He and Lead Welder B.R. Hill have been working together again until B.R. get a helper from one of the 10 new hires who started in our department on August 12.
We would like to thank Welders Don Eskue and John McGuiness for helping out in our Frog Pond.
Frog Pond definition: Our steel barn with floor, welding machines and grinders for rebuilding frogs removed from tracks for repair.
The number of trains going through the Fort Worth Service Unit poses a continuing wear problem for those of us in Maintenance of Way.
We met some of our new hires on August 15. They are a good looking group. We welcome them and hope to see about six more in mid-September.
Here is a little but late news flash: The kids are back in school. Let's watch those school zones and school buses. My wife is a teacher. I may think about this more than some folks do.
We received a little taste of cooler weather and it makes us look forward to fall and falling leaves.
Have a happy, enjoyable, safe and memorable Labor Day.
Eddie is Track Inspecter at the Crest Yard in Fort Worth