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HD5 Strange jobs

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Topic: HD5 Strange jobs
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Subject: HD5 Strange jobs
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2012 at 9:43am
I was just thinking back to a few of the jobs i did with the HD5G over the years . One was working for neighbor when he was doing railroad salvage work .
 He hired me to help on a job in St Paul down at the old Pullman yard in removing track. He had been using a large payloader but had tire problems so I used the HD5 to pull a sled to remove track from ties. It was a skid that went between rail and ties and as it moved forward it lifted the track while keeping ties in the ground , pulling the spikes out of ties and leaving the tie plates and spikes behind. 
 I must have pulled a couple miles of track up, he had couple guys picking up tie plates and spikes and throwing them into roll-off container. He then came behind with payloader with forks and piled ties off to side and also loading rail onto flatbed to haul to steel mill .
 One section of track we removed let up to a warehouse and as I came up to it a guy comes running out screaming he just bought the building with trackage. Seems someone forgot to tell him tracks were being removed. Oh well let them fight it out as i removed the other section of tracks going by his building.  


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