The Pukerua Bay wind stayed away, the mist and drizzle washed the tracks, then the watery autumn sun warmed the railroad for the Grand Opening and the Last Run.

We're moving, just as the W&MR nears completion. Sad but true, house already sold, and the new owner doesn't want the railroad. So up it all comes.

Part of the joy of outdoor model railroading is that so many elements are similar to the prototype. I level my right of way with a spade. I lay track in gravel ballast.

It is a tough call to demolish a railroad. it is an even tougher call to retire from one scale and sell all your gear. But that is what I am doing.

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

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photos from around this time

Ugly thing, using two car jacks. vibrated too much

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

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The SPL inaugural run was on or about this date.

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