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10/19/2008 3:09 PM  
Well I've dove into it yet again and after being in a new house for a year with no trains ive started a new railroad, this time dubbed the Walnut Creek R.R. 
 
Just like the previous RR I built ( Scenic View and Lehigh Valley West) I'll keep the thread here and one on Aristos forum, updated with new pictures and building progress.  
 
For this build I'm going completely with concrete for my roadbed which ill top off again with screenings that i had used on the previous R.R. Credit goes to Mr. Cozad for harassing me enough to do it this way.  Its a pain sometimes but being we have a concrete business on the side I have nice bendable plastic forms( which youll see in my shots) that ill use for the whole build. 
 
Heres some starter pics of what i have to work with. Roadbed looks wide since im pouring it for double-track eventually.....wont be able to do it right away but will later.
 
 
Where that little pile of grass is on the below picture is roughly where it will curve back around and go back past the shed.....its sort of an L shape layout.



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10/19/2008 5:25 PM  
Wow, great space you have there.. Nice to see another Marty-ite using the concrete roadbed.. Keep us posted.

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10/19/2008 5:34 PM  
Thanks dave.....that fence was just put in last weekend, especially for the trains to keep people OUT that arent supposed to be there....I should hopefully have time in November to work on it depending on temperatures....id like to get all the roadbed in before winter so i can lay track whenever but we will see.

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10/19/2008 5:52 PM  
woow Kev, cool
just remember to leave room for the law mower to get around. In your situation that road bed will work well.

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10/19/2008 6:55 PM  
Posted By NTCGRR on 10/19/2008 5:52 PM
woow Kev, cool
just remember to leave room for the law mower to get around. In your situation that road bed will work well.
 
Im actually going to get rid of the grass inside the track and on the outside will be another one or two foot of mulch.  I'll chip the grass away after all the roadbed is in as thats another hell of a project in itself.    It should start coming together well in Spring....


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10/19/2008 7:54 PM  
Hey Kevin,
I think your going to need wider curves than that to handle the Macs no? im very interested to see how the concrete rd bed holds up up here in the northeast!!!thanks for posting
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10/19/2008 8:04 PM  
Nick,

I figure more or less Marty and I are in the same climate so what he sees for the most part I should see......its reinforced as well as there is rebar buried in the middle to keep it together.

The MAC should handle the curves fine....the pic looks decieving but all my curves are Aristo 20 footers....biggest you can get without bendin 'em yourself

More pics coming when i work on it next. I'll need to get another pallet of Quikcrete to keep going and thats a few weeks away at this point

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10/20/2008 6:16 AM  
Yea   Concrete Road bed.   Greatist idea since  Cross Ties. 
 
Lawn Mowers?  Yea I remember those.  Used one once.  Yea now that I think of it  I remember  Snow Shovels  Used them too.   Been a long time though.

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10/20/2008 9:14 AM  
Kevin,
 
Has it been a year already?!  Looks good! 
 
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