20170710 Sewer Pipe

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10:39:36  This is the second day Gilbert is closed so that they can install a sewer pipe for the building under the road. We see Donegal tool and dump trucks. Donegal is the sewer subcontractor.

It is common for contractors to haul the dirt out and then backfill with stone.

Notice the layer of brick to the left of the man on the left. Some of Downers Grove's streets still have the bricks exposed. That is, they have not been covered with asphalt.

The trench we saw them dig across the road was to the left (West) of this area.

A closeup of their tool truck.

Here we see plates and gravel back fill for yesterday's trench in the foreground and the excavating they are doing today in the background.

And they are laying some drain pipes under the floor.

I think rain was predicted for Monday, so the M&M site declared a rain day. Fortunately for the sewer subcontractor, the weathermen were wrong again. There was not a drop of rain that day.

The village has allowed the M&M site to use the parking spots on the street and to close the sidewalk.

10:55:58  I'm documenting a false gate closure. Note the gates are going up, traffic is backed up, and I didn't take any pictures of engines going by. It has now been years since they installed the new signals and they still don't work correctly. During almost four decades of living here with the old gates, I never saw a false gate closure!

Checking back at the Forest site.

It is Monday, a work day, so other sub contractors, e.g. Abbey Concrete, are on site.

We used to have a joke at work, does the person doing the work do it faster if more people are watching? (In fact, I made more keyboard mistakes if people were watching. I let the technician who helped me do the keyboarding if there was a crowd watching because the pressure did not bother him. (A crowd would be watching us only because something is very wrong. These men are watching because only one person can work in the hole.)

The problem with burying drain pipes is that you can't see any changes.

2:45:22  Why do the freights come through town after I have walked past Prairie and can barely see them?

There were several engines on this one.

2:45:26  And it was an eastbound intermodal.

Even though digital is cheap, I was not going to waste anymore disk space on such tiny images.

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