The next hurdle is a bridge across "Boulder Creek". I had played with the idea of making a brick arch bridge but went with a simple timber affair to save time. Today I managed to plan out where the piers are to be, dig a few holes and cement them into place. I had a few bags of river stones laying around and excess concrete so figured I would layer the concrete like icing everywhere and then layer on the river stones. The main reason being when it rains the modest stream turns into a raging torrent and would no doubt wash everything away. This bit reminded me of building my nz120 layout although somewhat scaled up but quite satisfying.
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| How it looked before |
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| Piers & river stones in place, waiting for things to cure |
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| Looking North |
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| Cleaned up, needs more rocks |
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| Piers cut to the right height, the line is completely level from the flame tree |
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| Its largely a level run up to the bridge, I need to cut into the top ahead and redistribute the clay. |
Given the distance to the build site growing further away from the shed the wagons have really been useful to cart materials and tools back and forth. A few pictures of various loads. Need to find a big log and cart it on the log wagon behind the climax. Once the railway gets past the big bridge I can see the railway being used to cart logs up to the mill.
