Arosa Line

[Northsider]

I have noticed that where a mug of tea features in Fezwig 's photographs, yours have Doggo! He's almost become a Forumite in his own right!

 

[grizzmo]

I have noticed that where a mug of tea features in Fezwig 's photographs, yours have Doggo! He's almost become a Forumite in his own right!

He is always hanging round and the railway is beside the lawn that he loves to run up and down barking at the birds. Or he is waiting for me to play fetch, or chasing. Looking through all the photos I take, part of him is in 3/4 of them.
Funny he is a herding dog but his favourite game is to be chased. We should of called him the ginger bread man. Because he loves to be just in front of you so you almost can catch him. "ha ha ha RUN RUN as fast as you can, you can't catch me I am ...." . Does pop into my head.

 

[playmofire]

He is always hanging round and the railway is beside the lawn that he loves to run up and down barking at the birds. Or he is waiting for me to play fetch, or chasing. Looking through all the photos I take, part of him is in 3/4 of them.
Funny he is a herding dog but his favourite game is to be chased. We should of called him the ginger bread man. Because he loves to be just in front of you so you almost can catch him. "ha ha ha RUN RUN as fast as you can, you can't catch me I am ...." . Does pop into my head.

It's amazing what a human being can achieve when supervised by a good dog or cat.

 

[Rhinochugger]

You should see his borogroves: all slithy, they are.

That's a bit mimsy - must have been over 60 years ago that a teacher read that to us in school. If I remember rightly, she was covering for our teacher who was unwell, so it was probably something she kept 'up her sleeve' as it were, for just such an occasion.

 

[grizzmo]

That's a bit mimsy - must have been over 60 years ago that a teacher read that to us in school. If I remember rightly, she was covering for our teacher who was unwell, so it was probably something she kept 'up her sleeve' as it were, for just such an occasion.

I listened to the audiobooks last week whilst working, was quite enjoyable. Must of been 30-40 years since I last read them, thanks to Northsider for the promp.

 

[grizzmo]

Another Fortnight has passed by and a bit more progress has been made.



Arosa station area has been a dumping ground for rocks, blocks and conduit pieces for the last year.
I decided to get in and clear it all away and lay the block retaining wall for the scenic break properly. Second row to be mortared in when it stops raining.
That gave me a nice clean slate to lay the block foundation and track. Still some minor scenic work to do on entrance into the station. The big rocks are in place and clearances are good.
One day the station will extend 4-6 metres up the driveway at 1- 1.5m wide. I will grab as much land as I can .







The other side of the scenic break is Arosa Concrete plant siding now finished. The rocks were moved back to give more space. Again waiting for some nice weather to mortar all the rocks in.
The plant will go where the sieve is.



Rock work was nearly finished for next bridge to go in. I didn't really have a fixed idea of which bridge was going in here when I did this.
Now I would like to try and make a model of the old Castielertobel Viaduct. So the rocks on the left will need adjusting for the bridge to look right.
The stepped besser block at the top left edge is where the bridge will end.



This area is now back to the original track plan. I tried to fit a R1 loop in this space to join the 2 tracks up and give me a continuous run sooner.
It just didn't work and I wasted a fair bit of time and energy trying to make it work. The small LGB bridge is out to widen it 30mm -40mm, there were a few clearances issues on the overhang of bogie stake wagon hitting its step. It cut nice and clean running it through the table saw. I will make a light metal frame work up for underneath and screw it back together with a strip added in. With the track in place and ballasted it should look fine.



I got the capstones glued in place and conduits in for St peter/Molinis station area. Again just waiting for some dry weather to mortar the short row of besser blocks in place, also have a few more to cut down. Then I can glue the nice face rocks in place and lay the track bed and track. Hope fully this fortnight I can get this done.
As always Doggo managed to get in most photos

 

[dunnyrail]

Another Fortnight has passed by and a bit more progress has been made.


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Arosa station area has been a dumping ground for rocks, blocks and conduit pieces for the last year.
I decided to get in and clear it all away and lay the block retaining wall for the scenic break properly. Second row to be mortared in when it stops raining.
That gave me a nice clean slate to lay the block foundation and track. Still some minor scenic work to do on entrance into the station. The big rocks are in place and clearances are good.
One day the station will extend 4-6 metres up the driveway at 1- 1.5m wide. I will grab as much land as I can .






View attachment 340751
The other side of the scenic break is Arosa Concrete plant siding now finished. The rocks were moved back to give more space. Again waiting for some nice weather to mortar all the rocks in.
The plant will go where the sieve is.


View attachment 340752
Rock work was nearly finished for next bridge to go in. I didn't really have a fixed idea of which bridge was going in here when I did this.
Now I would like to try and make a model of the old Castielertobel Viaduct. So the rocks on the left will need adjusting for the bridge to look right.
The stepped besser block at the top left edge is where the bridge will end.


View attachment 340756
This area is now back to the original track plan. I tried to fit a R1 loop in this space to join the 2 tracks up and give me a continuous run sooner.
It just didn't work and I wasted a fair bit of time and energy trying to make it work. The small LGB bridge is out to widen it 30mm -40mm, there were a few clearances issues on the overhang of bogie stake wagon hitting its step. It cut nice and clean running it through the table saw. I will make a light metal frame work up for underneath and screw it back together with a strip added in. With the track in place and ballasted it should look fine.


View attachment 340757
I got the capstones glued in place and conduits in for St peter/Molinis station area. Again just waiting for some dry weather to mortar the short row of besser blocks in place, also have a few more to cut down. Then I can glue the nice face rocks in place and lay the track bed and track. Hope fully this fortnight I can get this done.
As always Doggo managed to get in most photos

You will need every inch of that 4-6 meters for Arosa with long wagons like that flat. Nice job looking very Swiss.

 

[grizzmo]

You will need every inch of that 4-6 meters for Arosa with long wagons like that flat. Nice job looking very Swiss.

Thanks and you aren't wrong, 4m more would really be on the short side 6-7m more would be good. I will just have to work out how much driveway down to my workshop that I can use. Or maybe I will accidently run the tractor through the old fence and part of the garden

 

[dunnyrail]

Thanks and you aren't wrong, 4m more would really be on the short side 6-7m more would be good. I will just have to work out how much driveway down to my workshop that I can use. Or maybe I will accidently run the tractor through the old fence and part of the garden

Good plan we like land grabbing in here.

 

[rhaetianfan]

Not much in the way of detail for the modeller here, but exactly one week ago this was Arosa:



Snowy from Langweiss upwards, the lake at Arosa was frozen and snow-covered.

M

 

[grizzmo]

Nice photo, the snow blocks a lot of detail in many of the cab rides along the line on youtube.
You are very lucky to be able to travel the lines, a dream for me which will unlikely ever happen.
I like the old station layout with the low platforms, before the goods shed was made into a bar and the over head bridge was made. I put in the siding where I have seen in many older video's they kept the garbage skips.
It would of been nice to have the building covered tunnel into Arosa station, but we have tiger snakes around and I don't fancy having an angry one pushed out of a tunnel by a train. With the valleys I can walk around and see easily into first, and they kind of look like tunnels( if you squint).
Either of those buildings in the background would make a very nice model front to hide the besser block wall at the back, one day. The glass building is the chairlift up the mountain?

 

[rhaetianfan]

Nice photo, the snow blocks a lot of detail in many of the cab rides along the line on youtube.
You are very lucky to be able to travel the lines, a dream for me which will unlikely ever happen.
I like the old station layout with the low platforms, before the goods shed was made into a bar and the over head bridge was made. I put in the siding where I have seen in many older video's they kept the garbage skips.
It would of been nice to have the building covered tunnel into Arosa station, but we have tiger snakes around and I don't fancy having an angry one pushed out of a tunnel by a train. With the valleys I can walk around and see easily into first, and they kind of look like tunnels( if you squint).
Either of those buildings in the background would make a very nice model front to hide the besser block wall at the back, one day. The glass building is the chairlift up the mountain?

Yes, I recognise that being able to ride the RhB (I try and get there at least once a year) is a privilege! I'm trying to get there as often as possible whilst locos still reign almost supreme on the Albula line - in just over 24 hours there last week I saw six of the 12 Ge 4/4 IIIs and many 4/4 IIs. The latter work mainly in pairs on freights these days, even on a single wagon train!

The glass building is indeed the chairlift / gondola. I last skied there in 2011...

Tiger snakes - yikes!

M