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Learning Curve - a Garden Railway and Radio Control in O gauge


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This week I've been laying a concrete base for a shed. They'll be a raised line that runs behind it into the cabin on the right. 

 

The right hand side of the concrete has been laid thicker so as to provide foundations for a small wall which will allow me to level the garden off behind it for the return loop 

 

 

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Our raised bed and trackbed should be just about finished tomorrow, baring filling with rubble and soil! Not going down the RC route so just hoping that I can get it to work well enough on DCC. Will need to build some form of track cleaning vehicle though. Will be watching your progress now I've found your thread.

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After a year of no progress I decided I better do something! Originally the railway was going to carry on climbing and go over the roots of a lovely old Acer. However over winter it died which meant cutting through the roots was no longer an issue. Cut back about 5ft of the existing concrete so the gradient could be reduced 

 

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My method of marking radi...

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The 5 foot I took up got smashed up and reused 

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And of course as soon as I got the concrete down and floated the heavens decided to open!

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The line is going to continue you around the top of the garden and back down the other side to a second loop and a branch line off into my cabin 

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After more concreting I thought it was a good idea to get some track down temporarily and do some testing with another Dapol Class 08 I converted to radio control today 

 

 

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I also removed the unprotected lipo from the Class 20 and made up a higher capacity replacement from individual protected cells

 

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