How many Arms do Salmon have, anyway?

First day of the strike and we did basic familiarization with the truck, and the hand tools and the hydraulic tools. Tomorrow we'll start doing work for real.

Here's me in front of the truck:

And another view of the truck. In front are Abe and George, who are my crew mates. We're all Trackmen "B".

Then we practiced drilling holes in the web of the rail. This is for bolting two rail ends together.

Then we learned how to cut the rails to length. Just a big gas powered saw, much like a chain saw but with an oversized tile cutting blade on it. I cut through the 132lb rail in aobut 45 seconds. I'm good.

This is a picture of Angela cutting her first rail. She was very proud.