well, the prep work has started for adding more tracks and stuff… First off, Jane has been transplanting bushes from the Memphis/Evansville wall to areas around the Hilltop Subdivision:
The plants inside the retaining wall to the left of the track, have been moved to the right side of the tracks, as I want an industry where the plants show in the below picture…
Movement of these plants, leaves the Memphis/Evansville area looking like this:
The Yard area will be expanded to a minimum of 5 tracks, and industries will be placed along the wall on the left… The round bricks were just placed there, to hold the roadbed for the tracks for the Ops session… The left wall will have another course of bricks added to it, and the whole area will be backfilled with aglime (crusher fines) to be the roadbed. At the far end, there will be a “Y” added to be able to turn locomotives… While Jane was working with the plants, I was trenching out the cut for the tracks running from Addieville, to Okawville…
This Picture shows where the tracks will run into the brick wall cutout, and continue on to Okawville… This will have a 2-track bridge, just like the Metal 2-track bridge that runs acroos Hilltop Sub… bridge will run from the brown stone wall to the cutout on the retaining wall… The cut will have some double track and a creek running on the left side of the cut…
Temps have been 55 - 60 for the past few days, nice working outside weather…
