Clearwater Valley Railway Co.

[Philip]

Real deja vu!

[elwoodblues]

I see the pictures. 

BTW, this is a good thread, thanks for sharing.

Mark,

Your welcome, glad you are finding the thread enjoyable.

[elwoodblues]

Real deja vu!

Isn't it

[elwoodblues]

Well time for another update, a "Live" one this time

Update #10 The Grading Crew Goes to Work. . . . . .

Now that the track center lines have been established, It's time to lay some roadbed.




I decided that I would start the process at the east end of the yard where all the fancy cutting would take place for the 3 curved turnouts.

Moving down the yard I soon realized that I would need to temporarily install the turntable so that I could finish installing the cork at the west end of the yard.





HOLY GUACAMOLE BATMAN, I THINK WE USED TOO MUCH DYNAMITE

In order to install the turntable I needed to cut the hole out of the foam.  I used a hot wire cutter for this.





With the turntable temporally installed I can finish up the cork roadbed installation.





The cork roadbed installed at the west end of the staging yard.





The cork roadbed installed at the east end of the staging yard.  I think I used every pin I own laying all this cork.

Thanks for looking in.

[PRR Modeler]

Ron that is a lot of progress on your layout. It looks like you will use the TT just for turning locos around without a roundhouse?

[GPdemayo]

Looking good Ron......

[ACL1504]

Ron,

I see lots of progress, well done, very well done.

Tom 

[Philip]

Nice progress Ron!

[Larry C]

Wow! That is going to be quite the staging yard; nicely done.

[elwoodblues]

Thanks for the comments Curt, Greg, Tom, Philip and Larry, they are very much appreciated.

Curt, you are right, the turntable will only be used for turning the locomotives.  I only operate steam locomotives (no stinking diesels here ) on my layout. 

[friscomike]

Ron, it's looking good.  With all that roadbed laid, I expect to hear the gandy dancers any time now.  Nice work.  Have fun, mike

[Rick]

Ron, congratulations on getting the TT installed and the track layout established.
I am curious as to why you are using a cork roadbed in a yard?

[elwoodblues]

Thanks for the comments Mike and Rick.

Rick, I use cork roadbed for 2 reasons;
     1. It deadens the noise, running trains on bare foam is a noisy preposition.
     2. It helps hold spikes as all the track on my layout is hand laid.

I use 1/8" gasket cork for this as it is much denser that the cork you get from hobby shops, home depot, staples, etc as there is a rubber component to it.  It holds spikes really well.  I got it from my local gasket supplier in 3ft x 3ft sheets which I cut into 1" strips.

[Philip]

My foam roadbeds are louder than my decoders I'll try that on my next module.

[Jerry]

Ron great update.  Turntable looks really nice who's make is that??

I wish I was the supplier of the pins I could retire selling you those!!!! 

Jerry