Well i guess its progress, a little slow, but progress.
A skyline is a logging term for a cable that reaches from the top of a mountain down to the valley floor. You attach a skyline carriage on the cable, and from that hangs the cable you put the logs on. When your ready the carriage is pulled back to the top by a different cable.
It’s still used today with heavy equipment doing the lifting.
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Would be amazing seeing those bents flown in. Maybe there’s some footage somewhere.
I put everything back together and trued up the bents, then built the areas that bridge over the two lower tracks.
Tomorrow hopefully some stringers between the bents.
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B u m p f o r p o s t c o u n t
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I’ll try to remember that Rooster!
I didn’t get nearly as far on as I expected today, only the inside stringers.One side went in fine, with plenty of access for the pin nailer. The other side, no room for that, so I gradually pinned each piece by hand.
I’d initially planned on butting the stringer boards on eash post, but decided I needed all the contact & support area I could get.
So I alternated them, stacking their ends.
The outside stringers should go a LOT easier, plenty of room for pin-nailing.
Yeah, Sean;
But Cliff is much more of a planner than most of us, and I admire him for that. Most of the time I have an idea in my head and just go for it. Sometimes I have to Jerry-rig, simply because I did not anticipate changes to my supply line, like the nameplates for Aragorn, below.
Best, David Meashey
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Have I brought up the water barrels?
Let’s see this is Cliff building them… 
He will probably build them stave by stave and then need to get special metal for the rings
Then the stain research by itself 
He won’t have time for that Sean. Once and if the bridge is installed he will be too busy cleaning out the amazing leaf trap he just built.
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Not to mention all the spider webs 
that must be, because you forgot about the one-stone-theory about the relativity of time.
my own trestle did not take less time.
what i saved on planning, jig-building, plugging, whatever, i needed more for taking rests, admiring additions, redoing things and daydreaming.
so i postulate a “trestle-rule”:
trestles need a certain amount of time - regardless how it is spent.
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At this point I couldn’t give a damn.
Now that’s the correct attitude as it’s only a hobby !!!
You are learning!
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So is this when you hand spike the track
Looks great… keep it inside so it doesn’t get dirty 
All the exits look a bit daunting. How are you going to get this outside?
Where is this V&T GRR? I was just in Carson City a couple weeks ago.
Probably on its side, riding on a baby buggy. We’ll see.