A sight line runs a loop through the backyard to test the track
arrangement The shed has yet to be moved across the sidewalk so the
line mysteriously dissapears into its front and side. The final
plan varied a bit from this one. This is early spring 1998.
July 1998, I am in the process of trenching and laying the conduit
under the roadbed. One of the dozen or so junction boxes that feed power
to the track is shown before being burried.
All the conduit has been layed and backfilled, and I am now feeding
in the wiring for the layout. The section this side of the junction
box is done and I am feeding in the next section to the next junction
box visible in the background. The track is test fitted into place
temporarily.
A Lil' Critter powered train fights up the grade at Fairview with
Coles curve in the foreground. The trains are on display during
the 1998 northwood Park Homes Tour, their first public display. The
track was not up to par and it was not level enough to run steam
locomotives.
Train on the valley line passing Adams. The giant white cat
is guarding the train from the eveil scrappers.
Overhead view of the layout in the late summer of 1998.
The PVC post for the control box is in place and the 12V and 120V
wiring has been run.
Between Cooks and Rocky Ridge the track is being reagraded to
remove the bumps and maintain a constant grade. This same procedure
was repeated over most of the line.
This is the first train of the 2000 season after the track was brough
back into shape after the winter. At the point are a PRR and Philladelphia
and Bethlehem Lil' Critters.
The Bachmann EBT ten wheeler and coaches winds across the Coles Curve
trestle and toward Robertsdale.
Looking across Coles Curve towards Fairview, the Bachmann CNJ ten wheeler
emerges from the forest and winds across the curved trestle.
After rounding the curve, the train heads on to Rocky Ridge and
Robertsdale.
The 'Control Tower'. The spare rolling stock has to be stored on the
ground until I can get a yeard built.
An EBT passenger consist comes down the mountain near Rocky Ridge
approaching Coles Curve. Two 'leased' White pass cars are in the
consist.
The new Pensy Alco FA units and the heavyweight passenger set
pass through the forest at Orbisonia.
The same train poses on Coles Curve.
The Alcos are coming off the mountain at Alvan and 'crossing over' to
Mount Union.