Ah, kewlness. I was wondering if that turntable would survive…I see it has…
Nice work Bob.
Nice work, Bob. It does look like some maintenance was in order.
Similar improvements happening up here on the Littleton and Smallville. The main Classification Yard is being built on wood surface sitting on legs made of concrete blocks to a heught of 36".
Bart’s BFR’s got our old track level up around kneehigh but after the grandchildren got a bit taller that that wasn’t enough for serious adult RR operations. New benchwork places track at 36 inch kitchen countertop height, will extend RR significantly into full point to point.
Fellow clubmembers have helped out enormously: http://www.backyardrailroaders.com/
Our newsletters are archived 4-U here: http://www.backyardrailroaders.com/newsletter.html
The story of our latest work on the old Late and Slow is in the June newsletter, which will be archived on the site only at the end of the month. I guess a privilege of membership is you get the newsletter a month B-4 it’s publicly archived… Check back later, say around JAM day and grab a download!
Nice work, Bob, good decisions and pretty fast progress too; you’ll feel so great once it’s done.
Sweeet!
Rain just drove me in, but I have about 80% of the decking done.
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TOC: Once the wood has seasoned a couple weeks, I’ll coat it with a nice brown deck stain.
Bob McCown said:
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Coming along real fine!
You know Bob that looks like a nice place to hid a cooler!!
Put it under a section of removal decking!
Nice work so far. This rain is getting old. The skeeters are going to get real bad.
Bob, is that PT wood on your roadbed deck, or just regular pine or some-such that you will coat with deck stain?
And why would you want to wait a spell before preserving the wood? Won’t that just make it harder for the wood to absorb the stain?
The decking is 5/4 x 6 PT. With PT lumber, you need to wait until the moisture content gets back down, so the stain soaks in well; but not too long that you get the gray color, which you then have to sand off.
Ok, thanks. Your PT lumber is different from the stuff we have out here on the left coast. Yours looks like real lumber. Nice.
Finished up the benchwork as far as I can get until I rebuild the TT pit walls.
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Right nice looking Bob.
Wow, looking pretty nice, indeed.
Did your warehouse lose the roof, or is that just a trick of the light?
Nope, branch fell on the warehouse, bent up both roof pieces, left the rest of the building intact. Need to cut a couple more roof bits,
OK…why the short ripped board about 2" wide in the decking ? Did you make an ooop’s on the framing figuring in the inside/outside tolerance or does it really need to be to that width.
TRUTH!
Looks great though!
Bob McCown said:
The decking is 5/4 x 6 PT. With PT lumber, you need to wait until the moisture content gets back down,
That may be awhile, if your getting as much rain up there as we are.
The rebuild is looking good. Appears to be a bit bigger then the old one with more space to move around.
Bob
It’s a lot easier and faster to build with new lumba
Looks real good there Bob!
Decking done. Finished the turntable pit last night, and fit the decking around it today.
I cut a bunch of half-thick, half-length ties out of cedar for the ring rail. Those will go down tomorrow.
Lattice across the front, and another brick planter
A few more days and I can stain it, then start laying track.
Great progress Bob. Looks great.