We hosted the GGRRC Picnic last weekend, and we needed to get some trackwork completed, prior to the picnic… Ric stopped by Friday evening and helped for a few hours, and he even came back on Saturday to help, along with other club members, Dan & Rita Patterson… Friday evening was spent, screwing track together on the roadbed Jane and I have been working on. Saturday morning was cutting track to fit, re-ballasting the new & old trackwork, and placing the Temporary bridge in for the Hilltop Subdivision, as seen below:
Previous trackage had been laid in the ““Sparta”” area, as seen below:
Track coming out of “Sparta”, branch line on the left, and mainline on the right, going thru the cut:
Branchline, as it continues along the bluff and under the Hilltop Subdivision bridge:
Branchline, as it comes from under Hilltop Sub.,
Temporary loop from the branchline, into the mainline, where it came thru the cut:
I made the loop, so we could run trains out and back, since I had no place to turn any trains, and a temporary loop was easier to install, considering the time limits… Picnic was 3 & 1/2 hours, after the rain stopped from hurricane Ike… was a bit windy to start, but the winds died down as the day progressed… Lucky, we only had 1 and 1/4 inches of rain that morning… Did wash out one area, slightly… Ric made a temporary fix, and we did run a few trains… Sat evening, Dan did make a video of his train, pushing a video camera on a flat, arount the layout, it came out great, just need to figure out how to transfer it to the computer, or disc, to save it…