tooter goes big time...

tooter · Feb 23, 2012

Just more digging in and track levelling...

diburning · Feb 23, 2012

What is the mat in the first photo for?

tooter · Feb 23, 2012

It's just a square of plywood which is directly in front of the little station house.

Rico · Feb 24, 2012

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!

CbarM · Feb 24, 2012

That looks like his supersized Kadee delayed uncoupler...haha

tooter · Feb 24, 2012

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.

tooter · Feb 26, 2012

More track work...

I estimate that it will take about a year to lay all of the track. The little cart rolls really nice and quiet on the embedded roadbed.

Rico · Feb 26, 2012

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.

tooter · Feb 26, 2012

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...