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By:JJ Young III
Dates:11/19/2011 - 11/19/2011
Album Info:Track work and Car repair
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Dr., it hurts when...
Title:  Dr., it hurts when...
Description:  As the member hand grinds to finish up, his partner continues to clean up, as they perpare to call it day
Photo Date:  11/30/2011  Upload Date: 12/2/2011 4:48:36 PM
Location:  Campville, NY
Author:  JJ Young III
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A few to go
Title:  A few to go
Description:  This UP hoppers truck shows the heighth of the water and mud, as it awaitsits turn to be rewheeled and all of its lines and fittings cleaned , or replaced
Photo Date:  11/30/2011  Upload Date: 12/3/2011 12:30:39 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  JJ Young III
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Old and New
Title:  Old and New
Description:  NS, the new operator, as time goes in the City of Binghamton, as seen in the blight in a ghetto life style on a west side neighborhood of binghamton on a rainy ...some what telling day in the Tier
Photo Date:  11/30/2011  Upload Date: 12/2/2011 4:56:29 PM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  JJ Young III
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Locomotives:  NS 6586(SD60) NS 2731(SD70M-2)
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Untitled
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Photo Date:  10/1/2012  Upload Date: 10/3/2012 3:27:45 PM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  JJ Young III
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Untitled
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Photo Date:  10/1/2012  Upload Date: 10/3/2012 3:25:14 PM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
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Untitled
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Photo Date:  10/1/2012  Upload Date: 10/3/2012 3:23:41 PM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
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Untitled
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Photo Date:  10/1/2012  Upload Date: 10/3/2012 3:22:11 PM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
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Building a furnace in three easy steps
Title:  Building a furnace in three easy steps
Description:  The welding gang begins to assemble the melting pot for the steel weld they are about to make
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:02 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  JJ Young III
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Seasoned just right
Title:  Seasoned just right
Description:  As one holds the tourch, the other seems to ba adding something to the tool in his hand as it is heated...almost looks like a salt shaker for a resturant.
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:02 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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warming up
Title:  warming up
Description:  Here they are warming the spot to be welded, as well as the tools before they begin the job and must be done in one hour
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:02 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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There's a fire down below
Title:  There's a fire down below
Description:  as smoke and flames begin to spurt from the furnace on track 1 in Owego NY
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:03 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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Now thats HOT
Title:  Now thats HOT
Description:  Flames shoot higher and the smoke darkens in the melting pot
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:03 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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Now were cooking
Title:  Now were cooking
Description:  The steel is now beginning to melt as it gets hotter at the pot.
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:03 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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fiercly burning
Title:  fiercly burning
Description:  The chemicals are now creating a molten liquid deep in the heart of this smelting pot
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:03 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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Ready for it?????
Title:  Ready for it?????
Description:  The bottom shows a small bubble of molten material as the process continues
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:04 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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filling the mold
Title:  filling the mold
Description:  Molten steel, almost like watching lava, fills the form to create a weld between the two rail sections
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:04 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  JJ Young III
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almost done
Title:  almost done
Description:  Droplets of molten steel continues to top off the form on the rails
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:04 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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We're almost done
Title:  We're almost done
Description:  flames protrude from the bottom of the melting pot as the form starts to cool
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:04 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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Flame on...
Title:  Flame on...
Description:  A whisp of vary hot flame can be seen as the mold continues to cool after the furnace was removed
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:04 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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Are you NUTZ
Title:  Are you NUTZ
Description:  the welder loosens the nut on a form part as the flames continue to shoot out of the mold, here you can see the sand form on the rails
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:05 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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Breaking up is hard to do...
Title:  Breaking up is hard to do...
Description:  Several smacks and the form finally breaks off and shows some of the molten weld on the rail head
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:05 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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Hot Stuff
Title:  Hot Stuff
Description:  After the cast was made, the welder is seen carrying the core away on a fork
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:05 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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Round 2... here we go again
Title:  Round 2... here we go again
Description:  They reset and start the task all over again on the south rail too, this time BOOM a much bigger burst as the melting begins
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:05 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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Smokin
Title:  Smokin
Description:  Smoke, sparks and flames fill the air around the furnace, as the concoctions of chemicals are creating molten steel
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:05 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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Fireworks display
Title:  Fireworks display
Description:  Sparks exploding everywhere as teh new batch of steel is brewed in the kiln
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:06 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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Bubbleing over
Title:  Bubbleing over
Description:  as the steel cooks, some of it exits trough the top and small holes along the seam
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:34:16 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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Red hot mama
Title:  Red hot mama
Description:  The molten steel has the port of the furnace brighter than red, as it slowly see's the fire waining
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:06 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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BURP
Title:  BURP
Description:  A large clump of molten steel erupted out of the top as it continues to cook
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:06 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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Snap...crackle ...pop
Title:  Snap...crackle ...pop
Description:  The sounds that are created when hot metal hits the snowy groung... nice show.
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:34:16 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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Here comes the metal
Title:  Here comes the metal
Description:  It is just seconds befor the steel hits the rail running
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:33:58 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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Here it comes
Title:  Here it comes
Description:  After the core has become molten steel, it melts out the bottom of the miniture furnace and... well you see it, molten steel begins to pour.
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:34:16 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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blinded by rthe light
Title:  blinded by rthe light
Description:  As the molten steel pours out, the kight can be somewhat bling\ding, as the welder shields his eyes from it
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:34:16 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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Waiting for it to cool
Title:  Waiting for it to cool
Description:  A NS supervisor speaks with the welders, as they wait for the mold to cool and complete this section of rail
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:34:17 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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Thank you for Levis
Title:  Thank you for Levis
Description:  Sparks kicks up between the legs of the maintainer as he continues to make it perfect
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:34:17 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
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This is the way we grind the rail
Title:  This is the way we grind the rail
Description:  (sound it to; this is the way we wash our clothes) as he grinds the head and sides of the rail befor returning it back to service
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:34:17 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  JJ Young III
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Not pretty, but we are open for business
Title:  Not pretty, but we are open for business
Description:  with some minor work needed, the welder completes the job, as the other gives the dispatcher back his track warrent
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:34:18 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  JJ Young III
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somethings are still done by hand!
Title:  somethings are still done by hand!
Description:  The worker is seen hand grinding the head of the rail after the molten steel had some what cooled in Owego NY
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:34:18 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  JJ Young III
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Faster... got to give this back
Title:  Faster... got to give this back
Description:  Notified that there are some trains coming, including 205, the welder cranks it up to complete and not interupt service
Photo Date:  1/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/25/2013 12:34:19 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  JJ Young III
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