Spent the morning puttsing, cleaning and grooming around track, and worst of all putting down some river pebble under the track for the new road. Spent a bunch of time picking out flat pieces and getting them placed. But as for the next few shots, I fired up the grill, went in to eat my steak and came out and found this. We must have had one heck of a gust of wind. This is a sight that struck fear in my heart.
Barb & John Schimmel are such close friends that we (most of my family near and extended (cousins, etc)) consider them part of the family. Anyway, when I named the three different tracks Barb asked what about them, as all three tracks have family names within them. Well I got to thinking about that, we now have a church which all towns should have, but what is the most used building in any town besides on Sunday's, --- a bar. So I decided to bestow one of the most popular items of all three tracks in honor of them. Hence Schimmel's Bar and Grill. I actually plan to build the first several versions myself. So it will start off down right unacceptable to at least Barb and move up the scale over time. Started construction on the land today. Hopefully will have road installed tomorrow and first very rustic building done sometime before Memorial day.
The box car full of beer showed up before John was ready but heck it can be sold anyway in this part of the woods.
He spent little time getting things set up. Looks like a fish tale is taking place.
Barb was not impressed with her living quarters I am guessing she could be bunking up at the depot while John roughs it a bit. We have a spare room as well.
With all of the folks showing up at Schimmel's Bar and Grill John asked me to round up some food. There has been a family of deer hanging around the cemetery so I figured time to get some Bambi. Nothing like Deer Chili, we can feed a bunch with the buck.
Now for my G Gauge friends down to business on what I think of the Polymeric Sand idea I talked about in yesterday's update. First it set up very good no doubt. But I will not use it for track stabilization for the following reasons.
1. With decomposed granite I can lay (including ground prep) about 4-6 feet of road in one hour after work. These 2 feet of just road took me about 4 hours, mostly carefully selecting rock that I wanted to show and ground prep.
2. For railroading the rocks do not really show or are of little use for track stabilization from what I can tell from this exercise. I used two different sizes of rock, 1 foot of road under the bridge was river pebble which is about 1 inch and diameter of various shapes so I picked flat ones which was very time consuming (I know you would not use those for track anyway - in fact would remove them). The next foot of road I used pea pebble which is too smooth for track but about the right size just does not do what would be needed for track (IMHO). Heck concrete is a bunch cheaper then Polymeric Sand.
3. RJD a member of a G Gauge forum website I use said that once set up with the track the track cannot easily be moved etc. Which is a very good reason, at least for now that I do not want to use something that puts my back against the wall. Oh, and I try very hard not to mention any web sites by link/name on this blog so I do not appear to be advertising for other sites. In today's world, websites with forums and such are careful for its fellowship to not allow links when they look to advertise so for those who allow links I honor that request which sometimes works reverse. I think I have unfortunately mentioned other sites in the past but I try to not do that.
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