Large Scale Central

The Eastrock RR or how to build a Grr on a 2nd floor balcony

General Discussion
#1

Well this is my anwser to the problem of where to you put a garden rr when you live on the second floor of a home. I started by replaceing the floor to our porch when I decided, after asking the CEO if i could build a new planter box around the perimiter of the balcony to expand the planter box idea and build a cantileavered box to support a small garden rr. I based to layout on a LBG 21140 0-4-0 O&K loco I purchesed a few years back. The RR is named after locations here in CT. I will keep you all updated as i make progress. I plan on useing code 250 rail and haidlaying the track. any comments or sujestions will be most welcome

over all view

building the waterfeature

lineing with filter cloth and spreading gravel

water falls aka Old Lyme

back side of Old Lyme and trees

waiting on the bridge to be built

#2

Very ingenious, Don!
You can use little LGB Porters and small cars quite well in an application like this. A lot less maintenance, also! :slight_smile: :slight_smile:
jb

#3

Where there’s a will, there’s a way! Nice!

#4

Very cool!

#5

Great idea Don.

Glad to see someone else from CT posting.

Jon

#6

I started to lay the track out this week after getting a great deal on aristo track from a local dealer. I was going to use code 250 but for now I am going with the 332 aristo. I’ll hand lay some code 250 this winter. I have the quarry site built and the track laid out in its aproximit location. Useing the aristo track has let me to see the layout and I can lay a second spur with room to spare.

A really tight fit

I have question to every one out there is there a product that will allow the train to run the revering loops with out haveing to stop and change the polarity manully.

#7

I’m fairly certain that LGB has that type of circuit. We have particpants here that speak LGBEEZE and will eventually chime in to help. Aristo and smaller manufacturers may have something like this also.

#8

There’s another manufacturer, but can’t find it right off. Makes reverse loop modules, modules to stop and slow down, etc.

Regards, Greg

#9

Gregg’s probably thinking of Chuck over on MLS … www.realroad.com He has all kinds of stuff along those lines.

The East Rock Railroad, huh? With a stop in Old Lyme? Hmmmmm.

Me old stomping grounds. Five years ago, we’d have been neighbors… you must live in 'Staven!

At least you didn’t call it the Quinnipiac and Matabasset … or the Menunketesuck and Oxoboxo …

I did consider calling mine the Hammonasset Railway at one point, but I’d need a mallet to get the whole name on one locomotive… :slight_smile:

#10

Thanks Matthew He has what i am looking for. So you lived here I moved up from MD about 3 years ago so we sort of missed each other. I live in what was called Goatville just found that out and not many people even know that. I am between Yale and I 91 in that part of New Haven thanks again for the link

#11

Between Yale and I-91 … hmmmmm let’s see what do I know of that area… I recall a high power coffee shop called “Diesel” not far from where a friend lives on Humphrey St … even after all these years he’s still there. Fellow I went to high school with, who plays the guitar professionally. Other than that, my only real memory of that area is from running patients into the Yale and St Raphael’s emergency rooms, and taking some saturday classes in the science buildings back in High School… 1985, gasp!

Of course a little further south, you’ve got Wooster St… nobody makes pizza like Peppi’s!

See, now I’m hungry. Grouse. Gripe. Your pennance: Head up to Rt 1 at the Westbrook/Clinton line, and visit the Fish Tale for me.

Now, if you want a really nearby 1:1 railroad that does a lot of interesting things like yours (albeit not narrow gauge) look up the Branford Steam Railroad …

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/steamtown/shs2m.htm