Yes, it is fun!!!!
But,you know when your dumb you suffer .....I went into town got a new sprinkler controller, and a solinoid, and got exactly the same results as with the first one!! I apparently can't read the destructions .......put the batteries in correctly, press enter when your programing it, and then close the relief port on the sprinkler valve itself and everything works as per plan....well almost anyway .... just need to adjust the adjustable sprinkler heads to stop watering the sidewalk! And the new controller goes back to the big box store......
Here's an inside pic of the finished train barn,
and an overhead shot of the garden in total
Still need to mortar and rock the water feature, which requires me to dig some river rock, and dedicate probably 2 full days to heavy labor...... well it'll have to wait till I have some free time....got to get ready for a mule deer hunt and deal with keeping my kitchen pass from the queen of the house in effect......
More to come......
Mark
It's been four months since I updated the construction log, and as my doctor says .... Shame on me!!!! In the interim, I've done a Phoenix install on the Forney, gone mule deer hunting in Texas (got the best one in 38 years of hunting 181 7/8s B&C), detailed the Shay with some weathering and decals from Stan Cedarleaf, burned up and repared my Bridgewerks 1000 and maybe broke it again last week end, laid about 60 additional feet of trackage, done absolutely nothing on the water feature and ran trains for the Grandkids Good Friday..... May be I'll get some landscaping done and post some pictures by Monday.
Spent today reworking the train barn storage layout with some aristo wide radius switches. I've had several issues with the small radius switches I originally placed there, including derailments on the main and when positioning trains or backing through them to store some of the rolling stock. I had to eliminate one siding that was too short anyway to put together the #10s I needed, but small issue to eliminate the problems of late.
I thought I'd lose some space with the wider radius, but was able to make it up by moving the points out about a foot on one end and placing 2 of the small radius switches back to back in the middle of the last yard track to create a storage only track with bumpers at both ends.
The one thing that irks me about Aristo track is there are no make up pieces, and you have to cut something 2 or 3 inches to fit the track even using all of their different lengths 1 to 8 feet long. I cut 3inches off a 3 foot, 2 inches off a 2 foot and still needed to cut a 4 inch piece to fill in another gap. Just irritating!!! Pictures to follow tomorrow if the weather holds off..... More to come..........
Well... I didn't get any good pictures of the train barn rebuild, due to cockpit problems with the operator...... but here are a couple that I got while putting in the sidings for my town and stockyards
Looking at some or my other posts I believe I screwed them up by reorganizing my PhotoBucket albums...... sorry about that...
More to come...
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