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Hello all, To begin with the website still has not changed as that will require a major rework and elimination of photos I am not quite ready to do yet. I thought I would give a verbal update. To begin with, I have changed a good part of the goal of the layout, some of this was done last year, forgive me if I duplicate. The map on my site is now way out of date! I just realized how much I have changed it in the last year! Done last year: Along the right side of the map there was a 3rd line installed which went thru the middle of the flower beds and a wye was installed with the line that is just below the pond on the map. The outer mainline is all double track except up by the house (the shorter single track lines at the top of the map are double track). Now planned: It now is RI with both CNW and NW interchanges and both of the other RR have some switching to do. If I can come up with an easy way to draw this out and post it I will..... If you are familiar with Des Moines, IA, I am focusing near Shortline yard. I am going to incorperate E18th yard for the NW and its grain elevator and the Armstrong tire plant both NW & RI served. This is going in right behind the garage where previously Shortline yard was going (original map said stoage/switching). The CNW is taking the track shown to go across the pond, before the pond will be a small interchange yard. Past the pond will be the ADM plant which both the CNW and RI served (on the map shown to be switching). In the top left of the map the last 1' or so of the garden will become shortline yard and a track will curve up the left fence to Armstrong tire at a right angle to the area served by NW (up by the garage). For now the actual progress to the RR has been planting scale plants next to parts of the line for the forseeable future, as well as ballast(see below). AS far as the stability of my concrete roadbed: no issues the 1st winter, hard as a rock, with no movement- only track problems is spelled d-o-g, and so far all of those are fixable! As far as ballast: Since I am going with a slightly (ie above grould level about 6-12") raised roadbed, all prevous ballast work has disapeared more or less, as the dog has moved it all. I decided to attempt concrete ballast, I am now mixing Porter with my ballast 1:2 to see if it will keep my ballast in place. I am talking about on the slope away from the concrete roadbed to ground level. MY test site is now about 1 month old and has held up better than the plain ballast did last summer. I am sure frost heaves will play havoc in a years time, as it has no rebar, but I doubt it could be worse than the dog/weather did in 2 months late last summer. -Next spring will tell what I think.
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