I figured you got a lot more!
Construction began today on a switchback siding for the mill that will serve the mines on the Dirty and Dusty Railway. I have a lot of shovel work ahead!
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What radius can the two-truck 1.20.3 operate on?
I’ve ran ours on 2 foot radius (4 ’ diameter) BUT you have to watch the drive shafts as the do fall out once in a while
You have a nice start there Doug
I was going to go with 4-foot radius so that will work. And I won’t have to move as much dirt and rock. My back appreciates that!
Doug, good to see you working on the line again!
Since the open house is back on the schedule for June 16 I figured it was time to get busy!
Doug, raining pretty hard here, waiting for the snow to arrive. Lets see how our drainage holds up here and on your line.
We saw a few flurries a little while ago so it’s headed your way!
More track inspection in the offing!
We’ll see if we have a contest to see who put their rocks in the :right" place!
Had to go out to the line and make some adjustments to the drainage. Lightning Gulch is completely full and overflowing.
So far the rain here is behaving itself. No run off yet.
Doug, I have the dedicated snowplow set in operation right now.
You will get to break it in! Just a little sleet down here.
Doug up here its a wet snow, so I was forced to add a SD45 to the plow train.
It’s too bad it wasn’t that beautiful powder snow we had a couple weeks ago! Get some pictures!
A new very low budget dock was went into operation on the D&D today.
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A merchant waves goodbye as the Forney leaves the new dock on the D&D. This was a low budget build. I cut the 40-year-old redwood for the dock on my table saw. The small shed was built from a 4x4 that was covered in siding that was given to me by a club member who gave up his shop 8 years ago. The door was of the same material. The trim was cut from the same redwood as the dock. The roof was soda cans that were run through the paper crimper. It was glued and painted with what I had on hand. Total cost: $0.00!
Nice Doug,
I have plans to do a couple of basic loading docks very much like that.
Ralph
After I build the cattle loading facility I’m going to build a couple more.
A street musician plays his guitar while his friend promotes the open house our layout will have Saturday. If you are interested drop me an email at [email protected] and I’ll give you the details .
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You better check that wheel on the Forney. 
I never even noticed that until it pulled out of the siding! I think a switch just before that needed cleaned and lubed!
I was doing switch maintenance when I was doing photography. It never derailed again. Thanks!