Weekend Distractions

My house backs onto the main Western line in Sydney. Quite often they do track maintenance - in fact I think that the small 500m piece of track of one of the lines outside my back door is the most maintained in the state; they seem to work on it so often.

The most 'popular' maintenance of that little piece of track is grinding. This weekend they have been working since Sat morning and last night got the big guns out - a long 6 or so carriage grinder. But silly me forgot to take a picture, I was too busy watching. It did look spectacular against the black of night .... sparks flying everywhere.

Today they came back with the little grinder so I took a snap of that ... imagine 6 or so of these joined together, black of night with lots of grinding sparks shooting everywhere; really does look spectacular!

This small one doesn't send out as many sparks as the big overnight monster.

Fortunately, they have a small fire truck that follows it along because all the dried grass along the rails kept burning from the sparks.

If they do more grinding tonight I will make sure I have my camera ready.....lol.

Anyway, it was an interesting distraction while I was waiting for paint to dry on a watercolour I am working on.


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