Today should see more significant activity: the Track Evaluation Car is meeting us in Kamloops at 10:00, and we'll follow it eastward. It has a whole slew of geometric sensors that detect defects in the spacing, angle, slope, curvature (etc) of the track. It automatically identifies where the defects are severe enough to warrant immediate corrective action. And we'll correct it immediately.
Thursday, the "Sperry" car come through the subdivision, which does non-invasive testing of the inside of the rail, and can find splits, cavities and other material defects. Again, we'll follow behind and fix what it finds. To that end, we've been told our normal rest days of Fri/Sat will be moved to Sat/Sun, since there'll be a couple days of work that the Sperry car finds.
Every day, we do more serious work. I think it's time to find a massage therapist here in town...
We saw a Great Horned Owl sitting atop a flagpole yesterday. very Odd.
This was a wonderful decrepit school house. a bit of a Fixer-Upper.
And before you overreact, this is the tail end of a coal train we ended up following for several miles on the track.
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