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Here is a new video with a tour of the track. Ride over the new trestle and see where a few expansion will go.
Continue reading →Here is a new video with a tour of the track. Ride over the new trestle and see where a few expansion will go.
Continue reading →160′ down 1590′ to go. I won’t post every day. You all get the idea from a couple of pics. I will give updates for other things I’m going to work on as we go along.
Continue reading →During the past few months, I demolished the old trestle and build a new one. The original trestle was build of local brought cut lumber (pine) in 2005. So I got a good 15 years out of it. However, the … Continue reading →
The rebuild is pretty much complete. Just have to add a railing and a few minor details. I will definitely steam up and run across the new trestle tomorrow. Here are a few pictures. I will have a few with … Continue reading →
As of today, the trestle is complete. I’ll add a railing and stain the whole thing in the spring. I also began installing the rail today. Tomorrow I’ll finish and fire up a locomotive. Two pics below. One shows the … Continue reading →
Today, I completed all of the decking. Put in some sills and cross braces. I will finish adding sway braces, sills, cross braces and re-lay rail on Friday. All depends on on the weather. I plan on running on Sunday. … Continue reading →
I made good use of today’s rain out by installing an Eccentric Engineer Injector on my OS Mogul. I’ll get back outside tomorrow and finish up the trestle rebuild. Can’t wait to run, try out the new injector and run … Continue reading →