Broke ground on the 'new' Allegheny Valley today

It is/was mid 40's and the show has retreated away from part of where I want to put the railroad, so I went out with a shovel and turned a bunch of mucky sod over (Only for about half an hour or so. Dang, I'm outta shape!)

Gonna go back out in a bit and go at it some more... pix later.

Well it's start mate!! and once you make a start it gets easier..................

It's only a huge mud pie at the moment ....And not yet 1/3 turned over

I DO get to buy some patio pavers for subroadbed on Wednesday, tho

Mik...
New home, new railway...
You've plenty to keep you busy...

The square and house foundations for the village of Kimberly were laid this afternoon

For a level looking spot, it certainly isn't... This is as far as we got before the rains chased us inside.










Probably looking at some sort of viaduct across the front of the house, then a largish trestle down at the bottom end. On the UP side, once the ground drops away another 1-1/2" or so I'll be able to add a second, lower level loop.

Short bridge to nowhere... yet


Spent part of yesterday extending the viaduct... I decided that the cinder blocks look better with most of them turned and capped.  We'll be partially filling much of this area with a decent topsoil/potting mix.


Today, I built a siding to serve the 'factory'. I never did decide what it makes, though....


I also started rebuilding the long covered bridge from my old garden. The thing has been in pieces for about the last 5 years..... ever since my daughter's cat got stuck in it and we had to pull the bridge apart to get him out. Yes, I'm missing a couple rafters. They're probably at the bottom of the old pond.... It badly needs repainted. When I'm done this area will be over a corner of the 'new' pond...


That's the end of RoW construction for a bit. I'm out of block again, and won't have spare money to buy any for a week or so. Tomorrow I'll turn some more sod, and dig around in the storage totes for a few more buildings, and the rail clamps.....

Intresting , looking forward to more progress

Coming along nicely.

The cat stuck in the covered bridge.......got any pics

put some track down today... and ran out of rail clamps.... and curves

Nice one Mik, lot of work going in there. I have the same station building with exactly the same couple and baby sat in exactly the same spot on the bench. Weird!
Cheers,
Kim

Once again we see another way of building a railway and i am very interested in seeing how your railway progress's mate.
 
Jason.
 

The patio pavers are easy to level, and relevel when needed... and weeds have a hard time taking root in them.  At a bit over $1 each (for the 8" x 16" ones) they're cheap enough, too.

I'll put a thin layer of limestone gravel ballast on top. Just enough to float the track. But first I gotta paint that miserable ugly skirting.

And I just noticed, it's been exactly one month since I started digging. Considering how many days it rained, that rate of progress isn't too bad....

Today's photos....

I found me a nice stash of rocks. Looks better than landscape timbers


Got some trees moved from the old garden. The were planted too close together before, so they are kind of bald on the back sides


coming along...


but running out of block. Yes, the ground has dropped away that much. I have a semi-elevated layout

It's amazing how fast the ground falls away. You know theres a slope, but how much?

Looking good. Be interesting to see this develop. Looks like time for a trestle!

Perfect for some bridges.

Looking very good indeed and a nice interesting set-up!

Mick

Bringing it to life.... The best part!

 
Today was my birfday, so I had the girls here. The 9YO decided we absolutely needed to put out the people....

 
First, we moved the church under the tree....

 
Then we put out the animals at Giant Gnome Farm...

 

 
Then came the schoolyard...

 
Anybody want a kitten?

 
I found the WWI Flying Ace at a yard sale for a quarter...


 
I couldn't leave Pooh & Co in the box...

 
And the cookout...

 
The old geezers made it too....

 
Simply can't have a pond without a kid throwing rocks in it...

 
And it was just a great day for a bicycle ride, or a road trip in a convertible, too...

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