The Savage of Hound River Canyon

[FJ and G]

The Savage of Hound River Canyon

Spent the weekend gardening instead of laying track, to take advantage of the nice weather. About halfway done with an 8 foot long girder bridge made from a stop sign post (no, I didn’t do what you’re thinking). You can see the girder supports drying (HO brass rails). Used GE Silicon II for doors and window trim. The outside metal around the stop sign is from roofing material and is very inexpensive at HD or Lowe’s.

Also planted a dwarf English boxwood, shown here. Says full sun but ignored the warning and put it in full shade under the deck, as experienced garden railroaders have had good luck with boxwoods and yews in shade.

Also, some of you have asked to see the entire layout so putting some views here of the unfinished mess. The track will be about 35 X 30 feet for phase 1. Phase II will extend as far as the eye can see. You also can see the stop sign crossing the canyon. It’s just there for measurement purposes.

Hound River Canyon got extended down past Peanut Ridge and there’s a functional culvert in place as well that you might be able to make out from the photo. The track of course runs atop Peanut Ridge and then bridges over Beagle Lake.

Well BB the Beagle, the Savage of Hound River Canyon, delayed work with her usual antics. When you see those expressions on her face, you know she’s up to no good. First, she dug up the moss I planted, shown here in the pot.

Then she took off with my gardening glove.

One step forward with progress; two steps back.

[FJ and G]

got an email from someone who asked me for my trackplan. Since you can actually see most of the yard (except where the 40 ft long river will go on the other side of the house), you can match up the trackplan with the photos.

Some of the layout, incl. the trainshed/warehouse is under the deck.

Dotted red lines are phase II. Solid red lines are phase I construction.

Black shows rivers, bridges, mountain range, lakes

I may take a period of rest between the 2 phases and make improvements on phase 1.

The two photos shown go side by side, the vertical one on the left side and the horizontal on the right. No track software used. Mountains, rivers, lakes created first, then surveys are conducted for the track; just like the real deal: