Category: C&A Railway Construction
Building the C & A Railway
By Brian Donovan on May 18, 2006 | In Main category, C&A Railway Construction | 3 feedbacks »
My garden railway was started in the Spring of 2006. The railway was designed to fit into an existing garden in a back corner of our property. It had been mostly planted with a few small trees, shrubs and tall groundcover type perennials. I only had to move two of the perennials. A flagstone patio and gazebo (my garden folly) had already been planned (and mostly built) for the site so it would make a great spot to sit and watch trains run.
Track is down & Running trains!
By Brian Donovan on May 29, 2006 | In Main category, C&A Railway Construction | Send feedback »
Track was laid and the power supply hooked up. I’m running track power with a Crest Ultima 10 amp power supply with a splitter to two Crest 10 amp controllers (1 for each loop). Some pics of running trains -
-Brian
Westward Expansion
By Brian Donovan on Jun 17, 2007 | In C&A Railway Construction | 1 feedback »
The Spring of 2007 saw much expansion on the CAR. I added 100 feet of mainline and a dozen switches. The new mainline expansion has two tunnels and a stone bridge with up to 3% grades. Tunnels are constructed of thin concrete blocks with cut slate portals. Retaining walls are a mix of natural stone, concrete wall blocks and pavers. A raised section of track (from the bridge to the inner tunnel) is ladder track construction of PVC Tufboard with PVC pipe supports and backfilled with gravel.
Construction pics -
Finished pics -
-Brian