After spending almost three months in Georgia for work, I laid in bed many times and thought about the peace that awaited me back at Acme. Finally, I was home and had the time to head down.
So much was revealed to me, as fall had stripped the foilage away from the property. New things that should have been apparent before were now obvious. I found the second oven battery, south of the coal bunker. Totally crumbled but standing, and just outside my view.
But even more looming was the quench station, which I had long wondered about. I knew it had to be south of the bunker but I had been unable to spot it with the weeds taller than myself.
As I make my living from conveyor belts I often wondered about the many heavy rubber belts that must have spun around the clock 20 years ago. And just west of the bunker, behind the south water tower was a small landfill of 1/2″ thick rubber belt. I found a piece with some heavy staple lace in it and cut off a piece with my knife to take home.
I found 14 operator checklists, for door machine and quench car. They were just barely damp so I let them lay on my living room floor for a couple hours then got them all scanned.
