I managed to get some work done on the inner loop roadbed over the three-day weekend. I decided to make a wye track on the east side of the gazebo. Of course, that also necessitated a couple of stepping stone pathways to have access to the switches. I decided to use plastic edging material to create the right-of-ways directly on existing grade and then come back and fill-in between the plastic strips with decomposed granite sub-roadbed.
Here is where the wye branches off the inner loop on the south side of the gazebo. The inner loop will continue west on past the walkway about a hundred feet before turning back at the far end of the layout.
Here are a pair of #10 switches where the reverse loop and wye will diverge from the inner loop.
Here is the view take just beyond the previous shot looking east on the north side of the gazebo. The inner loop will continue out across the moss bed and meet up with the existing portion of the roadbed at the far eastern edge of the layout. The roadbed curving off to the right around the gazebo will be the reversing loop and one leg of the wye.
Here is a different view of the same junction shown in the previous shot, but looking to the west.
Here is the moss bed that the inner loop will need to cross.
Here is a detail close-up that shows how the plastic roadbed and stepping stones are placed on grade. There is about a three inch thick layer of paver base under the stepping stones in this area. Everything else except where the roadbed will go gets a thick layer of shredded cypress mulch.
That’s about all I got done this weekend. All I need now is a couple more yards of decomposed granite and this section will be ready for track.
The saga continues,
Bob
