August 2024
Tracks and Trains
03/08/24 09:15 Filed in: Roadbed/Track
New sidings go in once the turnout is in place
Long strips of crossties are glued in position on the new assembly plant and boilerhouse sidings.
Once the glue is dry, the crossties are sanded level across the top and stained. Then the rail can go down. Code 70 rail looks especially small spanning the pit where coal will be unloaded for the boilerhouse.
"Work trains" with various locomotives and a range of rolling stock are run through the new turnout and down the new sidings to test the electrical connections and tune the track.
New track is the best excuse ever to do some operating.
Then I headed up to the Quarry Gardens at Schuyler to make some track adjustments on the Railroad Display.