Cinder Sniffers, Inc.

Happenings Around the Track

aka The Silt Ring

2026 PICTURES

5/20/26 Wednesday

What do you do on a rainy day?

Fix a grill that was smashed by a tree!

Good as new

(from 50 feet away)

5/13/26 Wednesday

Credit CS

Whats going on here?

Credit CS

Looks like the club locomotive being towed

Credit DL

DS towing the club locomotive

(Usually DS is the photographer, this day DL caught him “working”)

Club locomotive off to the shop for repairs

CS loads the locomotive into EH van.

JW burns the brush pile from last year.

5/9/26 RUN

It must have rained last night!

Miss a day, miss a lot.

Honorary member was on mouse patrol

Boiler test in progress.

It was Old Skool day for DS

SB after the boiler test

5/2/26 Private Party

Birthday

Happy passengers on a chilly day.

4/25/26

There chilly temperature

didn’t deter railfans from attending.

Workday/ Meeting

Fun

DF Pounds T Posts

Hillside stabilization Part 1

DL Pounds T Posts

Hillside stabilization Part 1a

RH mows with a borrowed

tractor

Other work not pictured: Tunnel, Cleaning

other hillside stabilization, diner inventory sorting, club engine repair, stick cleanup

Lunch during meeting

Lunch during meeting

Lunch during meeting

3/28/26 Final

Engineer Training Day

Student JR with instructor BC and passenger EH

The Bluebells of Scotland Cinder Sniffers.

3/25/25

Ballast Day

After a several year hiatus, ballasting

has resumed. We first had 4 ½ tons of #11

crusted limestone delivered.

Then RH, DL, EH,DS,CS,JR,SC AND CB

spread the ballast in much needed areas.

Even though we spent thousands removing trees

during 2025, there is ALWAYS work to be done.

EH and CS also worked on the turntable.

Sawhorses, levels, ratchet straps

and shovels were used in placing

ballast and leveling the track.

3/21/26

Engineer training

New member CK

Longtime member JB honing his skills

on the club engine

New member JW

Instructor BC and CK

3/19/26

THE BALLAST IS HERE!

THE BALLAST IS HERE!

A fresh frozen pile of ballast just waiting to be spread.

Miss a day, you miss a lot.

3/16/26

Spring bulbs in bloom

Winter brought a leaner over the north end of the track.

Oldies but Goodies

Action shot of DL, TT and EH installing a new switch

3/10/07 Photo credit Hughes RH or CH

EH and CS welding

new switch

3/10/07 photo credit Hughes

1/1/26

28 degrees

ES son and DS by the Goose which was on static display

(The Goose won’t run without a controller, which was safely stored at home)

The pole and fence look like they partied a little too hard.

Another job for 2026

Not too cold for them!