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The Rock Island Backyard DSM, IA Division (My layout plan, & now construction )
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Since last update: forms out and dirt in around 2nd pour (a week ago thursday). It rained all last weekend so no real outside work accomplished then. I bought a indoor/outdoor mat and cut it to fit the street running (patio) area and placed upsidown to look like asphalt. <br />Thursday the splitjaw expantion joints came in, so I laid track on all finished concrete. I RAN MY 1st TRAIN at 10:30pm last night. No derailments caused by roadbed or track work! BUT: After several slowly increasing speed test laps, I ran the train several laps both forwards and backwards at full throttle (as a test) without a problem until the second lap of backing a piece of my street running filler material moved and derailed the caboose -I already had plan to glue the mat down, but I wanted to see if it would work with the flanges first. About an hour later a second derailment happend when an out of scale dog nudged the slowly moving train with his nose and toppled the engine breaking the sunshade & a foot board (already fixed). Ashton had been so good uptil then -I guess it will take more time to teach him to leave the trains alone . FYI my site isn't updated yet, but the camera started working again, I just need time in the daylight to take pics. It should be updated Sunday?? <br />
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