We carried C-rations with us for our
noon meals. Norm Simons, on the left, is
the crew chief. Beans and wieners was
one of my favorites.
Here is Jerome getting a fire started to
warm up some C-rations.
LeRoy Hawco, our speeder operator,
and Howard Mangold getting ready to
fire up a
cold speeder.
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Here the crew is digging out the side
track so the speeder can get up this
slight grade to the main line which is
to the right of this photo.
At Pepperrell AFB the crew is using the
line truck to load poles on a pole trailer
to take to the job west of St. Johns.
On Saturday evenings we would go down to the
Airman Club and have a few beers. Of course
we had to check out the good looking Newfie
girls.
In the winter of 1952 some poles
near Whitbourne were blown over
from a bad storm. Here the crews
have stopped at the Jockey Club
for a late supper. M/Sgt. Annibal's
Hudson car is parked in the
background. Note the load of poles
and one speeder to reach the
downed poles along the railroad
track.
Jerome with a hack saw cutting off an anchor
bolt that was too long. The other end of the
bolt has an eye for the steel strand to go
through that is hanging on Jerome's belt.
"Frenchy" Boldue on the pole doing a transfer.
He was from Montana. Ben Craft is on the
ground completing a dead-man anchor hole.
Hole digging in Newfoundland wasn't the best.
Lots of rocks and swampy ground.
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