I was wondering about the "Kadee magnet" between the tracks, then I figured it is a road crossing.
You're really going to town on this!
I took the snowblower down my r o w yesterday after a big dump of snow and made rotary snowplow sounds in my head.
Might be as close as I get to my dream for awhile!
Except Kadee uncouplers won't work on curved tracks...
My 90 year old Mom needed to be with us so I built a little house in the back yard for her to live in. The "grade crossing" is just a piece of scrap wood I cut to fit the curved rails and routed out the edges to clear the wheel flanges. It makes it easier for her to get across the tracks safely.
That's really looking good Greg!
I have some bags of turkey grit (granite chips) that I was hoping to use as ballast.
That would look good peppered over your track if you can find it.
I purposefully embedded the ties below grade and didn't use any gravel because it's light grey in contrast to our brown soil. If any gravel got scattered around, it would stick out like a sore thumb. I'm going for old time abandoned narrow gauge look where only the tops of rails show above grade...