It is/was mid 40's and the show has retreated away from part of where I want to put the railroad, so I went out with a shovel and turned a bunch of mucky sod over (Only for about half an hour or so. Dang, I'm outta shape!)

Gonna go back out in a bit and go at it some more... pix later.

OK what is a new AV?

Tom C.

The Allegheny Valley is my outside/inside/inside again/finally back outside garden railroad.

this is what it looked like at the old place:


This is what it looks like so far at the new:


Just a mud pie now, but plans (so far) are to wrap it around the end of the place, turn the hitch into a mountain, and put a little preformed pond near the corner...

The square and house foundations for the village of Kimberly were laid this afternoon

Moving right along....


This level spot isn't...


Temporarily laid the track out to get a feel for the curves...


Coming around the tree, the cinder block shows how far the ground has dropped away. The track is level. We'll use this block and another for bridge abutments.


Relaid the one stone circle. Kim wants to plant spring bulbs inside it.


We got chased inside by a heavy rain shower, til it quit there was only about 1/2 hour of light left, so I laid the other cinder block to give us a 'bridge to nowhere'. Think the gubmint will give me a few hunnerd $mil for it?


We're out of block, and it's supposed to rain tomorrow, anyway. So who knows when I'll get back out to do more.

Spent part of yesterday extending the viaduct... I decided that the cinder blocks look better with most of them turned and capped. We'll be partially filling much of this area with a decent topsoil/potting mix.


Today, I built a siding to serve the 'factory'. I never did decide what it makes, though....




I also started rebuilding the long covered bridge from my old garden. The thing has been in pieces for about the last 5 years..... ever since my daughter's cat got stuck in it and we had to pull the bridge apart to get him out. Yes, I'm missing a couple rafters. They're probably at the bottom of the old pond.... It badly needs repainted. When I'm done this area will be over a corner of the 'new' pond...


That's the end of RoW construction for a bit. I'm out of block again, and won't have spare money to buy any for a week or so. Tomorrow I'll turn some more sod, and dig around in the storage totes for a few more buildings, and the rail clamps.....