Taita Gorge Railway

If your line is anything like mine, then the sandy crunch of train wheels running across that crossing is going to be with you for some time ;)
 
trammayo said:
Looks good - the hydrant's a nice touch too. How did you make your new "old" road? I was just wondering if the rain would have a deletrious effect on it.
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:D Crushed limestone, compacted damp with a hunk of 2x2. Last weekend, I did the platform at Taita Gorge, and it then it rained all week. The platform is still there. :)
 
KandNWLR said:
If your line is anything like mine, then the sandy crunch of train wheels running across that crossing is going to be with you for some time ;)
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??? As a matter of fact, no. I was awake to that potential problem, so, I packed the limestone down hard, then got a spare bogie and ran the flangeways into the crossing, then I packed these down extra hard. :)
 
Gavin Sowry said:
:D Crushed limestone, compacted damp with a hunk of 2x2. Last weekend, I did the platform at Taita Gorge, and it then it rained all week. The platform is still there. :)
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Ah yes - it does bind together very well. I thought it was coarse sand :-[
 
Gavin Sowry said:
??? As a matter of fact, no. I was awake to that potential problem, so, I packed the limestone down hard, then got a spare bogie and ran the flangeways into the crossing, then I packed these down extra hard. :)
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Good work, then. I ended up doing so fiddly sand removal, as I´d already built the wooden rail crossing before putting in the road. Another lesson learned :-\
 
;) Lights, camera, action......


http://youtu.be/UpEJzvWjG6w

This is what our member Doug Ingham shot when we had the Wellington Group running day at Taita Gorge
 
KandNWLR said:
If your line is anything like mine, then the sandy crunch of train wheels running across that crossing is going to be with you for some time ;)
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>:( After 2 months of almost constant rain, and no train running (not helped by being stuck up in bed with pneumonia), post winter maintenance was carried out weekend just gone... first train through the level crossing, crunch crunch, crunch crunch. Can't have that, because I said it don't/won't happen. Cue spare bogie, two passes through the flangeways, and no more crunch.



The clean flangeway is noticeable in the photo. Compare this also with the 'as built' shot taken at the same location, and see how the roadway has 'naturally' weathered up.
 
Nice to see things running again ;D
 
Stainzmeister said:
Hope the weather holds out for you :)
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:) Managed to run every day this week, so far. Problem with the Climax last night, the front truck 'siezed up'. Wasn't until I'd removed the miniscule screws to remove the truck, that I found a piece of ballast wedged in there. Ballast removed, play continued, under lights.
 
Congrats on the photo in this month´s US-based Garden Railways :o
 
;) Thanks Ross, up with the play on all things Climax. Had mine for just on 5 years now.... you get to know how to strip it down, and reassemble it in that time. Still my sweetest running loco.
 
KandNWLR said:
Congrats on the photo in this month´s US-based Garden Railways :o
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8) Thank you. That shot was inspired by some of the stuff JR had been turning out when photographing my line.
 
8) Spring has arrived. Having successfully tended my weeds, it was time for the railway to start earning its keep. So, here we have the new log siding being shunted with its first revenue load, by the faithful Climax 1203



Meanwhile, the railtruck is stuck up the old log siding, awaiting clearance



Our intrepid photographer climbed the tall timber, to record the log train passing Sam Drucker's Store



and a little while later, burst into the sunlight through the bushes



This post was going to be longer, with more photos, but there has been a major internet meltdown in this part of the world, and things are (very) slow at the moment. Oh well, can always go out and run the railway, I suppose. ;)
 
8) 8) 8) After yesterday's internet meltdown, it is indeed a pleasure to bring you 'Lazy Sunday Afternoon'. A few light chores on the railway, and into some multitrain running. Some time back, JR proffered the hypothesis that a drop of solder, falling off the iron, is hot. Repetative experiences today, when wiring up a jumper connection, have indeed confirmed that this hypothesis can now indeed, be called a hard fact. :-X

Now, with a series of jumpers and isolating sections, I can have up to 8 trains on Taita Gorge, naturally only running one at a time (unless, of course, a visiting battery loco is added to the mix). The afternoon sun is starting to stay higher in the sky, thus delaying the onset of 5 o'clock shadow (it's got to be 5 o'clock somewhere when the shadow comes ::)). Here's the photos......



 
Impressive planting, a railway that fits into it's environment.
 
Nodrog1826 said:
Impressive planting, a railway that fits into it's environment.
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;) The environment was 'built' to adapt to the railway....... this all started as bare lawn (that I got sick of mowing, so I built the railway).
 
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