Bob McCown said:
Today’s trackwork. The loop around the crab apple (about a 7’ radius).
and a reverse view. There will be a passing siding, an industry siding, and a branchline leaving from this area, and heading behind the blue trellis, and to the RIGHT of the picture, in the garden there.
Looks real good !!! I did notice that you decided to sink post’s below frostline (I believe) any reasoning for it, as opposed to knocking flat 2x’s into the ground and allowing them to float? I know your above me(state wise) but just curious? I know Bill Logan’s method from what I found used a showcase RR in the upper states(Ohio I believe) using his method and pounding stakes into the ground allowing them to float. Are you sinking posts just to be sure? Or did that(Bills method) RR turn in a roller coaster after the first spring? I ask this question as I have done a good bit of research but perhaps not enough and everyone’s method is diffrent. When doing my own personal research I stayed away from everyone basically south of the Mason Dixon line. Bob are you running track power?..don’t mean to start a huge debate on track/battery just asking? I’m a self employed import auto technician by trade and have and still doing a Victorian home restoration so I understand how it should have been done right the first time? Just trying to fill my little peanut floating between my eyeball’s with as much info as I can. Once again I realize I’m a newbie here and if I’m posting incorrectly please let me know…Otherwise I have a freakin RR to build and I ain’t gettin’ any younger! This forum is great Thanks guys Dave