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New Blog for the Garden Railway

General Discussion
#1

I decided that it would be easier to use a blog site commercially available for that very low price of free than to maintain a website and domain, so I have joined the ranks of those who blog for the garden railway. The first phase is to chronicle the development of the new mini-garden railway and then the elevated railway that will handle the larger locomotives. I may go back and add a retrospect of the first and now long gone railway of the '80’s and '90’s. We’ll see.

http://calicopotomacrailway.blogspot.com/

Stop on by and sit a spell. See ya’ll later!

Scott

#2

Neat Scott. nice video… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

#3

Beautiful railway.

#4

Nice start on the Blog. Railroad looks great. One day I would love to do an elevated railway and host a steam up.

#5

Very cool, Love the Cricket as always.(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

#6

Scott, I know Ron Brown used that method. Did you prep the ground any under the concrete blocks? Pipes just fit into the tops, held by gravity or did you use something?

#7

Jerry,

It was the success of Ron’s layout that led me in this direction. The pier blocks just sit on the ground. Only prep is to dig a flat spot in a couple of locations. I had to fill in one small area with left over concrete and cinder blocks , but the rest is just drop the block and stick in the PVC. PVC fits with a 3/8" gap at the bottom. Pressure fit, no adhesive. Same with the PVC onto the TB flange, pressure fit. Letting gravity do all the work.

Scott