PaAtving goes to work on the Snow Shoe Rail Trail

Three teams over two weekends split up to work one three separate bridges in three different stages of development. The first crew was adding “approach” railings to a bridge that was completed the weekend before. The second crew (PaAtving crew) was constructing the railings on the second bridge in preparation for the” last step” of construction, which concludes with the installation of the approach railings.

By Team
PaAtving

The season’s weather provided one of the last few chances of good outdoor working conditions for the year to roll up ones sleeves and donate some good hours to a great trail system opening up in 2003. The call went out to riders for help on a blossoming trail system to which more than four different groups and individual riders showed up from all over the great state of Pennsylvania to pitch in for a great future.

With the help of the organized determined volunteer workforce the project was pushed ahead of schedule, cut future costs, and hummed with efficiently.

The third crew spent the day working on the largest of the three bridges installing the strong backs to the bridge superstructure that would eventually support the railing that are to be installed on the second (work weekend) Sunday.


	The third crew had the tallest task of the day, and built up great momentum to gang tackle the project by the end of the day The PaAtving crew showed up on the second work weekend Saturday, “after driving three hours” and took the assignment (at the riders meeting) of constructing the rails on the second bridge. After some impromptu to experimentation, we developed the best system for constructing the rails and knocked the job out in good time.


						Lunch for the day, “hot chipped ham” sandwiches along with delicious potato salad was supplied. Look for more exciting things to come from this “motorized” Rail Trail in 2003 as it becomes a “model for cooperative effort” in Pennsylvania public trail systems.