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An unfortunate accident at the crossing between the tunnels, west of Hill Siding and east of Glen Hammond, resulted in the planned repair of the roadbed in the second tunnel being expedited.

Damaged track between tunnels	Track lifted, tunnel daylighted
Closer view of skylighted tunnel	View from low trestle
New retaining wall below Blue Mountain Mine	New bridge abutments
Closer view of new abutments	Top view of new abutments
New roadbed at the end of each trestle	View at Blue Mountain Mine
Lawrence working on new roadbed	Looking west at new bridges
Looking down from new bridges	Looking east at new bridges
Switches at Blue Mountain Mine	Switches at Glen Hammond
Glen Hammond Yard connected	First train across repaired track
Under the new bridges	Over the new bridges
Through the new switch	Into the Glen Hammond Yard
Glen Hammond Yard connected front and rear Bypass and passing siding taking shape	Bypass to connect just west of Bellamy
Glen Hammond Junction siding and bypass	Re-aligned mainline at Bellamy North
The bypass and Glen Hammond Junction complete	Siding and bypass looking east
Looking north at Bellamy	New crossing and siding at Bellamy
New and repaired track in red	Doug MacKenzie presenting Fred Mills with a momento of the occassion

A new branch line partner, The Rat Portage and Mattawa Railway, is now responsible for traffic within the old Glen Hammond freight yard and Bellamy. To avoid confusion, the freight yard has been renamed the Nelson Yard, while the IPP&W passenger station on the bypass will remain Glen Hammond.

The new branch line wasted little time upgrading the track work and installing new switches at both ends of the yard. Show here are a RP&M crew busy ballasting the Nelson Yard.

	June 8, 2007 RP&M and IPP&W crews installed the roadbed for an extra siding on the Glen Hammond Bypass.
	June 11, 2007 The switches and track have been installed. IPP&W crews will now be able to pick-up cars on the new siding left there by RP&M crews working the Nelson Yard. Cars destined for points on the RP&M will also be dropped there for RP&M crews to pick up.

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