Running in the reverse direction from the previous video

The dual-track loop is completed, the first train ran a full circuit in early November, and a dozen friends from a local model railway club assembled on a chilly evening to watch trains run with no major problems!!

The first garden railway loco moved today.

Serious progress on the roadbed, more than half done. About 70% of the main loop has roadbed.

Ugh! Nearly a year since last post. these are hard times. Too busy writing books and chasing work.

grading done, ordered last lot of blocks to finish retaining walls, about to lay track in cement "grade crossing' for pedestrian access

http://www.southpacificlines.org/node/67

http://www.southpacificlines.org/node/75

http://www.southpacificlines.org/node/19

photos from around this time

Ugly thing, using two car jacks. vibrated too much

trackplan exists for http://www.southpacificlines.org/taxonomy/term/6

Soemwhere in 2005, the beast in the basement was abandoned as too cold, too lonely and too far from the family

http://www.southpacificlines.org/node/170

The SPL inaugural run was on or about this date.

I have photos from this time of the first sound-equipped diesel

The second layout got a little further. More info on it here.

Somewhere in 2003 I set up http://groups.msn.com/kiwirail.

I've lost access to the group :(

An area in the basement was earmarked, and I planned a sectional layout. I buuilt the first end section - a loop.

Don't I wish I had kept a journal since the day i took this hobby up again. But I didn't.