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I have a much different problem, I have no snow, no cold days, nothing to keep me indoors; I live within a days drive of the tropic of capricorn. What can you do in summer when its 32 deg C nearly every day? well I run my trains and get into the pool and watch them go round. I may also do a bit of the stuff you guys do in winter as well such as workshop activities. Winter is the time to do outdoor work as the daytime temperature drops to about 20 deg C and the night temperature to about 10 C so you have plenty of energy as you have been able to get a good nights sleep. Right now I am planning works for next winter which will be about 70 m track in a double flopped dogsbone roughly. I have hopes of constructing this new area layout after the local Glasshouse Mountains with a few mountains I can get made locally out of ferro cement. I will have a tunnel, a major bridge several overpasses and tracks going around the side of the mountains. My big problem is connectiong up this new area (area 3), with the one around my pool (area 2) problem is i have the pumphouse for the pool in between. Going over or under it is not practicle, in front of it is, but has a few drawbacks . After months of self argument and soulsearching I have decided to go behind it . The space between the pumpouse and the backfence only 135 mm (about 5 1/2") and thats not enough also there is a big post in the middle. We had a visit from my stepson who is a qualified civil engineer and this is how we overcame these tough problmes, incidentally the problem is made mucgh worse as we have a very classy area directly behind our place which has been "Streetscaped", a new word for me. The fence has been lapped and capped and has two horizontal members near the bottom 200 mm (about 8") apart, not quite enough room vertically and 50 mm wide. So we built the road bed up to about 25 mm below the bottom horizontal memeber thgis hgave us just over 200 clearance on one side and the other side and middle clearance is unlimited. We put the rail sleepers (ties) right up against the horizontal member giving us about 5 to 10 mm clearance on either side for out largest Loco a DR Mallet, and yes it runs up there quite well for the limited length of test track we have down. But what about the post blocking everything, we are confident we can overcome this problem but I am concerned over the local ordinances I will have to pull a number of paling off the back fence and this is a very classy and public place but I will bite the bullet and do it . We need to get a spacer of about 1M long X 50 mm wide X 20 mm thicj to jam between post and the back wall of the pumphouse. Thence with a speedboreI will bore three or four 16 mm holes through the post and the spacer. Getting a long masonary bit I will then ecxtend these holes right through the 200 mm thick concrete block wall of the pumphouse. Passing some coach bolts through and putting a nut and washer inside the pumphouse will secure the post firmly to the pumhouse wall. The with a cirular saw I will cut the post of flush under the top horizontal member and abour 25 mm below the top of the bottom horizontal member. The way will be clear right through and the post will still do its job and hold the fence up. After I come back from being interogated by the police as i will have to do all this in full public view and someone will dob me in for sure., I can then run the tracks through and voila are 2 and area 3 will be connected together. I have photographs of all this but I do not know how to attache them using your system. If anyone has anything too offer I would be pleased to hear from them. Regards Ian
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