| The Right of Way by the Gazebo/Hot Tub.
You can see that the roadbed is a bit narrow and is starting to break away leaving ties hanging in the air. This needed to be fixed, so the roadbed was widened along this section of track. |
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| The Right of Way by the Gazebo/Hot Tub.
You can see that the roadbed is a bit narrow and is starting to break away leaving ties hanging in the air. This needed to be fixed, so the roadbed was widened along this section of track. |
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Getting the fill dirt.
It is easy to find fill dirt when you own 2 races of sand. This happens to be cut dirt from the top of Pottery Hill. I'm using one of my narrow gondola cars to transport the dirt. |
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Roadbed Widening. Here's you can see the roadbed widening is well under way. The narrow gauge gondola's hold a wheel barrow full of dirt. |
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The
Roadbed Widening. Here's the dirt dump process at work. |
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The
Roadbed Widening. The new roadbed dirt gets raked and another car load of dirt is brought over. |
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The Roadbed Widening. After all the roadbed is widened, it is whetted down and allowed to dry. You can see that the roadbed is much better than before. The track is re ballasted after the roadbed drys out. There are several areas of the right of way that will need rebuilding like this. |
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