Cleaned up some trains and did some repair on some Eng’s. that has not run in a few yrs…
Be surprised what one finds in storage carts… lol.
Anyway just some fun test runs from this last week end with clips made into a video.
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Electric Ave signs and Album is due to we are track power. It’s is part of our wide trail or path as seen in pass train video ends up to the Ho trains building & small reservoir out back.
Noel,
That was a GREAT video. I wish I could have spent more time with you and the guys and your RR on our last trip west. We will plan to visit longer on our next trip, I promise.
Noel
Nice job!
Not only did you serviced trains but you spent a lot of time to put this nice video together!
Great song, and love seeing the trouble maker in the background!
Great video, I always enjoy all the lush greenry around your railroad Noel.
Thanks’ for comments and looking guys. It’s fun to get thing running once in awhile but boy lots of yard work to do yet when this wind dies down. Guess that what happens when dumb dumb here try to make around an acre backyard green. All of around us is just empty or Strawberry’s fields. Anyway the animals love it.lol
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Noel, That was a great video thanks. Regards, Ron.
Great video. Love Boxcar Willie, have him on a pandora station. Your layout is fantastic.
What is composition of your permanent roadbed shown at Pine Tree junction and before that on the curve. Thanks Ted
Tk’s Guys
We are still learning how to use the Win-8 movie maker and love putting sound and music in to vedios… Just makes the R.R.stuff a little better to us…
Ted N. …
You asked a question on roadbed. One thing you should never ask an old guy that is almost 80 these kind of question… You get long ans. lol.
My days go back to the 1950’s on using Ho gage track on a portable bar and on the ground. I tried just about every thing you could think of our climate here in N. Calif.
In the 50th’s, we had a portable Bar that sat on our Patio that had a back and forth street car going just next to the ash tray gutter on the bar. We wanted the tracks and ballast to look real and had to be something that would move or able to patch easy and yes easy to clean the booze off of it… So we came up with finely mortar and sand and then seal it… Easy to patch when a bottle hit the tracks on the bar. The portable bar had wheels on it and was 10 foot long. We even use it many time where I worked for Westinghouse Maj…Appl. div. for dealers dinners and meeting. So tracks and ballast took a beating, but repairable.
Same as in though day we had Ho layout for meeting out in our Lanai/patio. It was a Ho layout and was on the bricked up flower bed. So lot of water on the track and ballast…
Back to the old idea of mortar and sand for ballast but no sealer on it. Easy to clean up the track with same idea as a Swiffer pad with a handle that was home made… Easy to water the plants and nothing messed up the ballast and water just runs off of it…
Very easy to patch by making up a batch of Mortar and sand dry and fix up the area that will blended back in. Using and fine spray bottle of water with a few drops of dishwasher soap in it to soak thru the ballast.
By using the same idea after many try of difference idea on floating ballast in the Garden R.R. Ended up using the same idea of Mortar and sand, but make sure you un-screw most the rail on the ties so the Rail can move from the heat and coldness. Sometimes you may find cracks in the ballast, but it’s easy to patch anytime. We like it because we can use a screwdriver and break off some the ballast to re-do tracks or some repair if need and patch it back up again… We use a lot of water on our yard and really never have much problems with the ballast. To us it looks good by using play sand or fine gravel mixed with the sand to look like light gray ballast on real R. R.'s around here. Also easy to wash off the crap, leaves and twigs that get on the track too.
One idea is to dig a small trench along side of the ballast so can blend the dirt back up to it. Some time heavy rains will wash the dirt away from the ballast. It’s easy to fix by pushing some dirt back up to the edge.
In our videos you may see the edge of the ballast showing with no dirt up to them that washed off.
Hope this helps and it’s easy to adj. the whoop-de-doo’s & level of track that in time some tracks will move.
See…never ask an old guy a simple question… lol.
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Noel, great response. Thank you.
Ramble all you wish, I enjoyed it.
As an adjunct Univ Professor, I will read the 80 yr old every time. Sentences are complete without any run-on’s, spelling and punctuation also and paragraphs are coherent.
I needed such a break as well as the valuable info. Ted
