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Posted: Thu Jul 12th, 2012 10:17 pm |
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Posted: Thu Jul 12th, 2012 10:24 pm |
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Dwayne
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I got home today and once again continued with dirt work in spite of the temps being in the upper 90's and the humidity. The port town of Keylock will be located in the dirt area in the foreground. The patio to be installed (currently overgrown with grass) will represent water. Gonna have to build a dock and a small barge...

Hope to put down a few feet of track this weekend before heading back to Canada on Monday.
I also ordered a Bachmann Davenport today as other motive power I have is still being worked on and isn't yet ready to roll.
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Posted: Tue Aug 7th, 2012 05:06 pm |
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Posted: Tue Aug 7th, 2012 11:59 pm |
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W C Greene
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PROGRESS! Now you can actually operate. I love that track, much better than RTR stuff..looks like mining road track.
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Posted: Wed Aug 8th, 2012 01:19 am |
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True enough. It's a start, albeit a slow one. Gone to much to make fast progress, especially with the heat we're dealing with.
Glad you like the track. Too many narrow gauge modelers try to keep everything perfect. My ties are spaced two scale feet on center... give or take. Some are further to the right, the left or not even perfectly square to the rails. 
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Posted: Wed Aug 8th, 2012 05:10 pm |
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Posted: Wed Aug 8th, 2012 05:49 pm |
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i like the track, how much does a 6' chunk cost in comparison to buying rtr aluminum?
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Posted: Wed Aug 8th, 2012 05:59 pm |
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Whatever you do, don't place any fill dirt around those trees that you would like to save. Trees don't tolerate that very well. Believe it or not, they breathe through their shallow roots.
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Posted: Wed Aug 8th, 2012 07:00 pm |
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Dwayne
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dodgezilla04 wrote: i like the track, how much does a 6' chunk cost in comparison to buying rtr aluminum?
I bought the rail from Switchcrafters. 16 pcs (96 feet total) goes for about $48 (not counting shipping)... so the cost runs about $1 per foot for the rail itself. My ties are cut from 5/8" x 6ft treated fence boards that cost about $1.20, with each board giving me about 110 ties.
I'd guess that overall each foot of track costs me about $1.10.
Many have this misconception that large scale is expensive. Because I'm not attempting to run huge diesels or Big Boys... I find it comparable to smaller scales. I just bought a new Bachmann Davenport for $99 + shipping. Heck... even an Accucraft live steam engine can be had new for less than $500 which is cheaper than most everything Bachmann offers in plastic.
The only drawback for large scale is if you live in the snow belt. Then you'll be limited on the time you can actually run trains. Fortunately I live in a climate where that is rarely an issue.
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mwiz64 wrote: Whatever you do, don't place any fill dirt around those trees that you would like to save. Trees don't tolerate that very well. Believe it or not, they breathe through their shallow roots.
So I've been told. The patio corner closest to where the switches will be located was cut into the slope. Fortunately there weren't too many roots from the silver maple seen in the above photo. The few I did dig up were less than a 1/4" diameter. What fill I did add is only a few inches deep where I leveled the ground to the tops of the cinder blocks. Hasn't seemed to affect the tree any. The drought we're experiencing on the other hand is rapidly taking a toll on a few trees in my yard. Two years of too little rain with weeks of 100F+ temperatures is causing all plants in our area to start dying. :(
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