Shop and/or RIP track moves

[steinjr]

Anyone have some photos of rip track facilities?

Here is one, from the Wisconsin Southern yard in Horicon, WI (NE side of the wye, if you look it up on e.g. http://maps.google.com):



The RIP track is the track with the dark ballast - probably been a few spills of oils and various other things there over time. Basically just a track with a hard surface along the track, so you can get some equipment up to the cars or engines to be worked on. Looks like a mobile crane (yellow) parked in the upper left hand corner of the image. Some container or sheds for storing welding equipment and such things further down, and some wheel sets on tracks on the ground to the left of the track track.

Smile,
Stein