Beer break for track gang; bone for hound

[FJ and G]

The weather Saturday was nice enough to lay track. After a sweaty day, tested the track with a Budweiser beer car, as the track gang was thirsty.





To hold the quarter-minus ballast together, I sprayed some diluted concrete adhesive onto the ballast (first wiping the rails with WD-40). Learned the trick from a fellow O scale garden RRer in Nevada who has a 100 pound dog.



BB the beagle tested the track out by running on it and it held together pretty good.







For all of her hard track testing work, BB the beagle demanded and received a small steak bone.

[Anonymous]

David
you had good weather to do something on YOUR RR track looks good , it looks like you have doggy power . Did you run any engines??? BEN[:)]

[FJ and G]

Hi Ben,

I spent the other part of the day searching everywheres for my DCS TIU (MTH), that's used to power the computer. I'm still searching hi and low for it but decided it was nicer to work outside. Hope to find it soon to show some good smoke output!

[SandyR]

David, that sure is nice trackwork, and I love your beagle!! What a sweet dog!
SandyR

[FJ and G]

Thanks, Sandy.

Ben,

Went digging last night and located my DCS TIU and handheld so I can run some trains now. There's only about 70 feet of track laid and it's all point-to-point b/c there's still a lot of track left to lay until it forms a loop and may need to order more rails. I'm paying about $90 for 100 feet of Right O Way code 148 rail.

If anyone knows a less expensive source, please let me know. I can't go below code 148 (b/c of the deep "toy" flanges) but I can go up to about code 205 and shim the rails up.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

I've thought about three rail garden railroading, is it any more difficult than with the G scale stuff?

[FJ and G]

PennFan,

Not really any more difficult. Unless you're running O live steam or rig up your own R/C, you're stuck with electricity, same sort of debate that goes on with G; such as keeping track clean, etc. The benny is you get twice the train/track in your garden b/c the scale is smaller.

The first garden RRs were in the UK and even today they're popular there (mostly 2 rail O, however).