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The Rock Island Backyard DSM, IA Division (My layout plan, & now construction )
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<P>Well my guestament was about dead on as I just finished pouring the rest of the mainline and it took just shy of 70 bags to finish. Now I need to build forms and pour the leads to the switching areas and the yard lead( shouldnt take more than 20-30 bags total).</P> <P> The actual switching areas and the yard are not gonna be poured in concrete as they very well may be changed in the future/ allow for water drainage from rain as they will occupy a fairly large area next to trees/buildings. The yard lead concrete pour will include the mult. switch platforms, and the industrial areas leads, but the industrial switches will sit on concrete blocks for stablity, instead of a complete concrete platform. Hopefully the mainline will be complete (track and ballast) and all the remaining planned concrete poured with in 2 weeks!!!!! Finishing the yard/ industrial areas will take much longer as alot of switches will need to be purchased and lots of buildings made (will be next year till all track for that is in, and who knows how long for the buildings).</P> <P> I should mention that the switching area behind the pond will be a little bit of a problem (and is excluded from above statements) and will require a future (next year????) concrete pour as a bridge is required across the stream end, it will be close to the main behind the pond, but only accessable from the bridge accross the pond. A problem yet to be looked into (serious grade problem- drop of about 1.5 feet from one side of the pond to the other- maybe a large gravel/dirt back fill???)</P> <P>I hope to also have a redesigned website with the next month, to explain what I have done and what I plan to do, but done much better than how my site is now.</P> <P>Ambitious yes, can I do it when I said I would, we'll see....</P>
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