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Here begins the saga of my attempt at garden railroading.  The pictures show the garden area as it now appears and where the first stage of construction will begin.  I'm calling it the SRS Road in honor of my father, who devoted 30 years of his life to the Southern Railway.The picture shows most of the area to be involved in phase one.  It will be a simple oval running just outside the bench but inside of the bird bath, then passing inside of the white plant stand.  From here the balance of the loop is blocked from view by the big tree in the foreground.  It won't be a perfect oval but very near it.  Total distance around is 40'. [IMG]http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o89/rtsrs/Decgarden.jpg[/IMG]  As you can see it is all level however, there is a depression in front of the plant stand.  I plan to make it even deeper, fill it with small stones to similate a "rocky gorge" and put a bridge of some sort accross it.Construction will begin as soon as I can remove the plants that have to go to new locations.  In this area that will be late March or early April.  Both bird bath and bench will also be moved somewhere else.  Any comments about the space and any ideas on how best to utilize it would be greatly appreicated.  Right now I'm thinking of trenching out the loop and "floating" my track in crusher fines and then filling over that with chicken grit.  I will lay sectional track, brass, not sure yet about rail fasterners yet but realize some form of fastners will have to be used.  I will also need to place at least two switches somewhere in the loop as in phase two, much later, I want to connect it to a larger outer loop.  The outer loop will follow the picket fence which encloses the entire garden area.Thanks for any comments.................
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