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.
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| Bridge progress after day two |
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| More Piers firming up. |
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| Day three bridge fixed in place, still to add pedestrian walkway alond the side and more boards & plastic, then to be backfilled with some clay. |
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| From above, track ready to upgrade its sleepers |
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| Day four sees track fixed in place with new sleepers |
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| After some heavy rain overnight the waters flowing nicely with only a hand full of rocks swept downstream. |
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| The next step, a bit of an embankment. |
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| Work continues on the embankment, Da delivers another load of timber |
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| Looking forward, the cutting starting to take shape. |
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| In the process of removing problematic slanted pines before the railway gets built, should clear up the view a bit |
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