Large Scale Central

Piney Creek & Goat Hill Junction Railroad

Track and Trestles
#21

A little more work done by the corp of engineers. A tunnel was needed to aid passage through the mountain.

(http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w212/hill834/Garden%20Railroad/IMG00093-20100319-0706Small.jpg)

I am working on some abutments leading to the portals that were just completed. Joey loves holding the little tiny pieces steady while daddy operates the cutoff saw…just kidding. It’s a little nerve racking watching out for the little one while cutting wood. He loves to see what I’m doing. Good thing the noisy saw keeps him at a distance.

(http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w212/hill834/Garden%20Railroad/IMG00092-20100319-0705Small.jpg)

(http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w212/hill834/Garden%20Railroad/IMG00091-20100319-0705Small.jpg)

#22
Rick Hill said:
[i][/i] Joey loves holding the little tiny pieces steady while daddy operates the cutoff saw....[i][/i]
Your a funny guy :D Love the tunnel.
#23

I guess we know why littel Joey is called lefty by his friends. :open_mouth:

#24
Geoff George said:
I guess we know why littel Joey is called lefty by his friends. :O
Exactly!
#25

Good Lord, Rick, you’ve got the disease bad.

Welcome to the nut house.

#26

What’s the cure? Buy more trains? 'cause I could submit an insurance claim and get a reimbursement before the government has a say in it. Please say yes.

#27

Nice RR Rick …but I’m not allowed in this thread as I have no diseases and it involves goats.
:wink:

#28

Rick, for whatever it’s worth…I did something similar (mountains of dirt) on the first go-round…once the rain gets to it, it begins to disappear; I recommend planting some “stuff” to keep it from washing all away.

http://www.largescalecentral.com/LSCForums/viewtopic.php?id=6875
above is link to first build…

Looks Wonderful btw!

#29

Yeah, I’m concerned about the mountains too, especially after the huge storms we had here in SoCal this winter. Some of the canyons in the foothills got rather inundated and lost some homes. I am planning on supplementing the dirt with large rocks and plantings and some form of natural retaining system. Kind of figuring it out as I go. I already have some alluvial fans from erosion. Oh, and David, I don’t have any goats at the moment so feel free to stick around if you feel comfortable.

#30

I was lucky I had started some rockwork prior to those rains and on the “mountains” that had rocks the dirt stayed but the bare “mountain” melted.Once I figure out track placement I’ll rebuild it and do the rockwork at the same time.

#31

Wow Cale, I remember looking through that thread a while back and thought it was an amazing amount of work there. Makes my little 8 yard pile of dirt seem puny. Thanks for sharing that again.

Doug, you would know very well the extent of our rains. Some beautiful country back there. Any flash floods in your area?

#32

Here Rick maybe this will help you feel better.

(http://www.lscdata.com/users/geogeorge/_forumfiles/airone.jpg)

That is my front yard. about 8 ton of landscape block to build the retaining wall 20 yards of top, 30 yards of rock just to get it filled in barrowed a friends bobcat for that part. Then last summer got done with the mountain about 10 more yards of dirt and 5 more pallets of landscape block

(http://www.lscdata.com/users/geogeorge/_forumfiles/done4.JPG)

Now god only knows what I will do this year.

#33
David Russell said:
Nice RR Rick ...but I'm not allowed in this thread as I have no diseases and it involves goats. ;)
If it involves goats...............where's Marconi :D

My dirt mountains survived a 12 inch rain. You need to get something planted that will hold the dirt.
Ralph

#34

Ralph Berg said:
If it involves goats…where’s Marconi :smiley: My dirt mountains survived a 12 inch rain. You need to get something planted that will hold the dirt. Ralph

I’m beginning to wonder if I chose the wrong RR name. Goats? Must be an inside joke I’m not privy to yet. Worked a little more on the tunnel abutments today.

(http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w212/hill834/Garden%20Railroad/IMG_0939.jpg)

and ran the old LGB for Joey and his girlfriend. Yes he is going steady at almost 4 years old, but he still eye’s other pretty girls. Crazy world.

(http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w212/hill834/Garden%20Railroad/IMG_0941.jpg)

Oh and Geoff, I’m speechless. My old back just aches looking at all those stones. I terraced the yard on the other side of the driveway several years ago using 12" retaining wall blocks. Not sure I want to do that again.

#35

Thanks Rick. My website has play by play photos of the build for the first two years. I still need to update for last years work. For some reason I get sore everytime I think about it. Now were is that advil?

#36

Oh yeah, I looked at your site before. Killer. Those Christmas lights… Very impressive.

#37

Rick,
Your RR name is just fine.
We may be a bit twisted, but we’re harmless :wink:
Things will become clearer in time.
Ralph

#38

Hi Rick
We actually did ok for flash floods. We have a few leaks but that’s abput ll;. We have our travel trailer at Quartzsite, Ariz., and were there for the worst of the rain. We have a “dry” wash behind our trailer and it was about 3 feet deep!
I like the tunnel abutments. I have cribbing on mine but those rains washed a lot of dirt onto the tracks so I have to decide what I’m going to do. When that dirt gets wet it can do a lot of pushing.
We were down in your country yesterday. We were in Orange!

#39

You are absolutely right about dirt pushing. I have discovered that right away in my experiment in construction material. My new abutments are made partially of 3-1/2" x 1/4" composite edging material that I found at HD. I ripped the edging down to 1" strips for the horizontal backing boards. The remainder of material is 1/2" strips of cedar. Much too flexible. You can sort of see the effects in one of the above photos. I may eventually have to rip them out and rebuild with all cedar.

#40

I love Goats!
:slight_smile: