Gallery of log for Railway Repair Machinery
I'm taking an example from a visit to Thailand just before Christmas 2015, when I had volunteered to teach the subject of Geocaching to a few groups of youths and their leaders at the equivalent of a Jamboree.
It is 'Back to Basics' in Thailand, when it comes to Railway Maintenance. The local workers were pushing wheelbarrows of ballast from the dumped pile to where it was to be spread. But when they were returning with the empty barrows 'you' could easily see right through the base of the barrow, or at least see some of it covered by plywood or a sheet of tin!
The following is from my Waymark - WMYRRQ, as in: https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wmYRRQ_Railway_Maintenance_Muak_Lek_Thailand
[THIS is the 'sister' site to Geocaching.com where your geocaching name and Password get you in, to explore a different virtual world to the Virtuals of Geocaching, where the proof is in the photograph - though a narrative is great!]
"Muak Lek is on the Bangkok to Nong Khai rail line, with Saraburi, and Ayutthaya between here and Bangkok. (I was on my way to Saraburi). When I saw the total manual labour of the Railway Maintenance crew I thought I would try to get a photo. I was really trying to get an 'inside' photo of the wheelbarrows that were being used to deliver the ballast, but the Thai workers were a bit skittish about having the 'tray' of the wheelbarrow being photographed.
"There was a real reason to be worried, I guess, as the base of one had a sheet of 5-ply on the bottom, and another barrow had a sheet of tin lying loose in the bottom. The only motorised piece of machinery was the lorry that had brought the load of basalt ballast. They allowed a more distant photo to be taken, which didn't show the condition of the barrow. [BTW, trains only run about every hour here.]"
I had borrowed a pushbike from the University I was staying at, to cycle into the rural town of Muak Lek, with the intent to go to the next closest place, that had any Waymarks and Geocaches - though in the end I was unfortunately unable to find any of the Geocaches. Visited: 1041, Tuesday, 8 December, 2015
It is 'Back to Basics' in Thailand, when it comes to Railway Maintenance. The local workers were pushing wheelbarrows of ballast from the dumped pile to where it was to be spread. But when they were returning with the empty barrows 'you' could easily see right through the base of the barrow, or at least see some of it covered by plywood or a sheet of tin!
The following is from my Waymark - WMYRRQ, as in: https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wmYRRQ_Railway_Maintenance_Muak_Lek_Thailand
[THIS is the 'sister' site to Geocaching.com where your geocaching name and Password get you in, to explore a different virtual world to the Virtuals of Geocaching, where the proof is in the photograph - though a narrative is great!]
"Muak Lek is on the Bangkok to Nong Khai rail line, with Saraburi, and Ayutthaya between here and Bangkok. (I was on my way to Saraburi). When I saw the total manual labour of the Railway Maintenance crew I thought I would try to get a photo. I was really trying to get an 'inside' photo of the wheelbarrows that were being used to deliver the ballast, but the Thai workers were a bit skittish about having the 'tray' of the wheelbarrow being photographed.
"There was a real reason to be worried, I guess, as the base of one had a sheet of 5-ply on the bottom, and another barrow had a sheet of tin lying loose in the bottom. The only motorised piece of machinery was the lorry that had brought the load of basalt ballast. They allowed a more distant photo to be taken, which didn't show the condition of the barrow. [BTW, trains only run about every hour here.]"
I had borrowed a pushbike from the University I was staying at, to cycle into the rural town of Muak Lek, with the intent to go to the next closest place, that had any Waymarks and Geocaches - though in the end I was unfortunately unable to find any of the Geocaches. Visited: 1041, Tuesday, 8 December, 2015
Rated: for Overall Experience.
