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Now that its spring I have found out what did and what didn't hold up over the winter here in Chicago. First I learned that tile grout that I used for roads looked good and promising , however after the ground heaved several times over the course of the winter and cracked it real bad resulting in the near total replacement with a different material. This year I am trying a driveway patch material which is made of ashfalt . I am going over it several times with a sealer filler to eliminate the large pebble effect you get from this stuff . I'm hoping it will be more flexable and last longer . We'll see if I am right this time next year . Next I found out that I NEED a split jaw type of rail joiner at EVERY rail joint . I like using track power to run our railroad cuz I have several friends that like to come over and run and their stuff is all out of the box . I will convert one of my locos before winter to battery so I can run my plow . Never did get to see a train push snow cuz of dirty track .I'm real excited about all of the projects we have planed for this year . My wife and I have already planted aprox 60 dwarf alberta spruce trees so far and I talked her into letting me have more yard for thr railroad . I am planning a pond and a couple of spur tracks for interest . I'll post pic's soon of what we got so far . Hope some this trial and error experamentation helps someone out there . Mike D[img]http://www.planetdonnstudios.com/mike/winter/images/006.jpg[/img]
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