Adding a turnout & additional line into the shed

 To house all the 7.25" trains I 've been meaning to build an engine shed but until then I can in the meantime add another line inside the existing shed. This all had to be done with the trains out on the layout which meant I had only the day to finish enough track that the trains could be put away. I had to undo the track and shift everything to the left to make room for the second track. To achieve this I undid the bolts on 1 track along the whole length which allowed me to nudge it into position, my back suffered as I hunched over loosening endless bolts and then later on tightening. Then onto the point work, simple enough, tricky part is the frog and blades which a grinder and cutting disk make short work of. The test wagon in front of the silver fern testing as we go, the wagon recently had the wheels reconfigured to match the Da 52cms between axles & happy to report it made it around without any major issues (derailed on a branch).

Forgot to start taking pictures until after shifting the track and tightening up all the bolts & beginning building the turnout. Due to the inside track shifting the outside track (closest to camera) no longer connected by 2 inches.

End of first day, trains safely inside the shed again, turnout almost functional at this point with the mainline point blade connected.

Next day progress, point is mostly finished just need to replace sleepers with full length ones, ballast then add the check rails, although not needed the wheels glide through.

After fussing about on hands and knees & ruining my back even more I can finally sit on my wagon & roll around, need to ballast & tamper before anything heavy can roll over it. 

Need to get some drainage pipe and run it along the left hand side of track then fill it in with gravel.

Some ballasting & tamping later, work on the track resumes