Monday, June 28, 2010

Dig It

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Since the last post I've been doing a lot of digging. While planning out the track locations I realized that there is one 12' radiu...
Saturday, June 19, 2010

A Better Waterfall

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Since last year the waterfall has been unfinished. The top of the waterfall is in place, but the only thing between that and the streambed ...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Outdoor Track

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I've mentioned that the outdoor layout will be set in early 1880s Leadville (front yard) and Salida (back yard). Currently my target dat...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

A Beginning of Fish and Plants

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I knew nothing about pond maintenance when we started -- now I know only a little bit. But the only way to really learn is experience, so af...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

Restarting the Water Feature and Finishing the Foot Path

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In this post last year I talked about how I decided to use Aquascape's Microskimmer box to house the submergible pump. I also explained ...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Footbridge Railings

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As you may recall, late last year I stopped work on the bridge due to an injured rib . At the time the footbridge looked like this : I start...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Transition to Summer

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My last post was on April 23rd. A lot has happened since then, but virtually nothing on the iNdoor layout. Except for a little work on the ...
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Friday, April 23, 2010

Switch machine standards

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This post describes the procedure and standards I use for installing Tortoise switch machines on the main layout. This is the first of two r...
Saturday, April 3, 2010

3 weeks on

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Wow, already almost 3 weeks since my post describing my current project, automated switches for part of the main layout . And over 2 weeks s...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Power District 2

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So, following up on the last post, it took 3 evenings of work to complete the rewiring for power district 2, not just 1 evening as I'd h...
Monday, March 15, 2010

Towards Automated Switches

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My goal is to have complete switch automation for the section of the SAMR line on the main layout -- the only part of the main layout that g...
Friday, March 12, 2010

A Fortnight of Progress

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The past two weeks has been busy in terms of model railroading, but I don’t have a huge amount of physical layout evidence to show for it. A...