Not sure how to make water go up and over EXPENSIVE new travertine tile. Problem#2 not submerge the bridge if I build it river banks up high enough to get the water over the tile. After all this work I am not going to rebuild the entire thing.
Other than that it’s not a bad idea if I would have thought about it before pool renovations
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OK, I’ll bite, how are you suspending that center block? Construction adhesive?
However you’re doing it, it looks super cool!
2" steel bar stock, listed in the bottom of post #18.
Thanks, I missed that.
Just saying it’s time for a commercial!
I’m glad you can’t see the support, but from the pool it is sagging just a bit, which is surprising to me, considering the thickness and there are 2 of them. But they should last a long time before anything rusts
Fair enough. Its easy to be an arm chair engineer.
Well time for an update and general fill in on what’s happening.
On the expansion it has been slow going working around the pool pump, just no room to work, IF. I was thinking at the time I took the wall down the make the opening I would have done that section first, but I have changed a few directions on things . One 4’ section left to add in and that part of work will be finished.
Next I have to get 2 left hand switches to connect everything and lay the track behind 2 bushes.
110* today so no pictures
On a downer note, one of our club members has terminal bone cancer, and only found out it was end stage after an auto accident 2 weeks ago. He has been collecting for years but has not started a layout, our club has a little used live steam modular setup, and after some planning and work in a hot shed 8 of us on Saturday set up the 2 track module in his back yard and a transformer to run it, worked out to have one of the steam up tracks next to the patio so he can load up cars and run the trains from the patio. The smile on his face when the locomotive started and ran around the layout was priceless.
Pictures of layout progress soon,
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