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Not everyone is as lucky as I am to have over 3/4 acre of bad, but mostly green, lawn. With my double-deck rider and hotrod mentality, it still takes me over an hour to do the lawn. This is a definite consideration when it comes to designing the outdoor railroad that I expect to start building next summer.
The yard and most of the action (at least in the early stages) will be up at the rear of the house but stage two will put a "main line" track way down into the "lower 40" and back. I'm trying to design it all so that track at grade won't be a mowing nightmare.
I'm wondering how I can build the track, ballast, and foundation so that I don't have to go back and trim along the roadbed with manicure scissors. every week. I can picture the blade deck sucking in the ballast and shooting it out over the lawn. Since I live in the NorthEast, I'd prefer to have the crusher fines hold the track while allowing the frost/heave cycle do its thing. I run the mower deck at its highest setting. Is this doable?
The yard and most of the action (at least in the early stages) will be up at the rear of the house but stage two will put a "main line" track way down into the "lower 40" and back. I'm trying to design it all so that track at grade won't be a mowing nightmare.
I'm wondering how I can build the track, ballast, and foundation so that I don't have to go back and trim along the roadbed with manicure scissors. every week. I can picture the blade deck sucking in the ballast and shooting it out over the lawn. Since I live in the NorthEast, I'd prefer to have the crusher fines hold the track while allowing the frost/heave cycle do its thing. I run the mower deck at its highest setting. Is this doable?