Been awhile, or have I ever?, shown what I’ve been building. Anyhow, I’ve been slowly working on my backyard rendition of the Rhatische Bahn. It begins with a three track staging yard in the garage which represents the Furka Oberaly/MGB, and this is also where I have all my storage shelves. It heads out into the real world and the first town is Disentis. Granted, it’s no where near a actual renition of the prototype, it’s what I had room for. This is looking towards the house and garage, and shows the passenger end of the station. When I get around to it this winter, I plan on building the platforms and maybe the big shed that covers the platforms. And perhaps adding in a engine pocket to store the FO engines (if I ever buy one…)
The other end of Disentis, showing the sidings, which I currently use for freight traffic. I found some pictures recently that show the RhB end of Disentis, so this end of the station is currently in it’s third rendition…
As the line leaves Disentis, it makes a big horseshoe curve around the (future) garden and ends up at the sawmill. Again, I still need to build structures. Logs arrive from Bergun, and finished lumber get’s shipped out to various points on the layout. Operating at the Crumudgeon’s alot, I’m leaning more towards freight operations on this layout.
After the sawmill, the track again makes a horseshoe to swing around along the back fence to Filisur, but not before crossing a swing out bridge. That curved turnout was removed, I never liked the way the track flowed through there a #5 turnout will take it’s place down where it straightens out.
And now we arrive at Filisur, you can see here where that #5 will end up. The short stub of track off the switch in front of the boxcar will lead to a branch line that drops down to ground level. Since the whole railroad is elevated, I had to have somewhere to actually have the railroad in the garden!
This looks down the station area of Filisur. Like I mentiond, I want the ability to do freight switching, so the turntable that should have been where the boxcar sits was replace with the industry. That and I didn’t think I could fit the turntable in with the fence in the way.
The rest of Filisur is waiting on the last few Llagas switches to be shipped, so the rest of the pictures will have to wait. Although I do have some pictures of my other part of this hobby I enjoy… building bridges! A friend lost his LGB 5061 bridge to a tree branch this past winter, so I offered to build him one out of steel. I built a jig for building this one since I’m going to have two like it on my layout, figured I’d make it easier to duplicate. These three would make bridges 4 through 6 that I’ve built. So here’s the result.
So thats what I’ve been putting around with this summer, that is when the real railroad isn’t trying to keep me busy. It’s a real battle trying to find the time to do all this while they keep trying to send me back to work! I’m going to have my work cut out for me this winter though. I’ve got alot of structures to build! But untill things do cool off too much for me, I’m going to continue building and hope to be at the begining of Bergun before I call it quits. After that, all thats left for me to build is Bergun, Muot and Sameden. Thanks for looking, and always, comment or ideas are welcome!