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After
the walls were in place 50 yards of soil was brought in and
compacted to develop the subgrade. 40 yards of sifted top soil
was added on top of the subgrade for the landscaping. |
Lookout
Lake has been installed. Lake went from start to finish in
one day with the experienced crew from Landscapes to Behold. |
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Construction
view across Lookout Lake and what will become Lakeville Narrows |
View
across Lookout Lake. Lookout Mountain is on the right hand
side of the photo. |
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Surveying
for the roadbed construction. |
David
Ross and Mike Pfulb working on Lookout Mountain |
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Tom
Rey, Al Estabrook, Donna Hanson and another volunteer from
the San Diego Garden Railway Society work on the Gold Mountain
area of the layout. The cut to Desert Portal Tunnel is in place. |
Tom
Rey, Robert Westover and Rene Gallet work on staking forms
for the concrete roadbed. The forms were made of strips of
masonite. For the curves a jig was made that created forms
that were the same radius of the track that was to be laid
on top of it. This greatly increased the speed at which the
forming work was done as the turns did not have to be measured
out and laid up on site. |
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Dick
Ericksen, Lloyd McCashen and Mike Pfulb work on roadbed and
roadbed forms. |
Donna
Hanson and Robert Westover work on roadbed forms near Lakeville
Narrows area of the layout. |
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Tom
Rey begins the process of laying track. The LGB rails were
held in place on the roadbed with clear Lexol construction
adhesive. Original LGB track connectors were used with LGB
graphite grease in the joints. This later proved to be a problem
for maintenance due to loss of electrical conductivity. Most
of the original LGB connectors were replaced with screw on
connectors by Russ Green, current Railway Engineer and maintenance
of way supervisor on staff at the nursery. |
One
of the first Locomotives on the track near the Lookout Mountain
Steaming yard. |
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Nursery
Owner Ken Andersen (left) and Dave Crocker (right) look over
a double track bridge that Dave and Bob Baxter (not in picture)
scratch built to span Granite Gorge in the layout. Made of
Redwood with brass fittings it truly a beautiful piece of engineering
and work! |
Robert
Westover works setting the landing for one end of the Lookout
Falls twin LGB Bridges. The LGB bridges are excellent pieces
that are well engineered and look great in place. There are
3 in the layout. |
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Plant
material being set out for planting in the layout |
Diesel
and Steam side by side on the completed layout. |
