Sunday, May 29, 2016

Halfway Around - G-Scale Garden Train Fun Land - 05-28-16

Blog Entry and Photos by Bob


The nice weather over the past holiday weekend really helped out with getting a lot accomplished on the train layout.  A couple of trips to the lumber store and the sun setting past 9pm,  we are halfway around the yard.  Taking almost every train car we own out today I had no problem going down the 2 1/2% grade but a bit of a struggle going back up.  Being used to having our longest straight-away be 8ft, I am amazed at how beautiful a long stretch of railcars looks.  Before it took me 30 seconds to take the train around, now it takes over a minute to drive to the back corner of the yard!  It is too hot today to work in the sun, so the evenings have turned into the time when I go into action.



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Sunday, May 22, 2016

Around the Bend in G-Scale Garden Train Fun Land - 05-22-16

Blog Entry & Photos by Bob

I had a numerous thoughts about where to place the posts as the track turned.  Each radius track section is about 3ft long, but having the posts that close would look ridiculous.  When I was planning to dig footings I staked the backyard every 5ft.  Realizing that I could cantilever the top decking off the sides of the lower spans, I decided to space the posts around the bends at 8ft as well.  Over the past week I managed to find more deck blocks and buy another load of lumber to keep going.  Hopefully over the long weekend I can get a lot accomplished.


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