Plastic Stone Sheeting

Garden Railroading
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I’m thinking of using some concrete blocks in places in my layout to hold back dirt and want to glue some plastic stone sheeting to it to make it look like a stone wall. Anyone tried that and what “glue” do you use to secure it to the concrete block sides?

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Read: “Glue that work’s” post it come’s in large tube’s

Dave

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Dave’s comments on a previous thread is dead on. Sounds to me as if you might be doing a large project and you might need “caulk gun” size tubes of the stuff. Large amounts might run into high dollars. As an alternative option I would suggest going to your local builders supply and “read all the labels” on construction adhesives. Find one that brags about attaching your choice of block and the form of plastic sheeting you will be using, and brags about temp/humidity ranges in your local area.

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I used Liquid Nails concrete block/landscape tubes to glue blocks and cedar planking to my retaining walls http://www.liquidnails.com/products/product.jsp?productId=37 and they have withstood the weather fine for 3 years so far.

Regards,

Jack

Tantarra Western Railroad - Burleson, TX

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Hi Jack, wellcome to the fourm. I would love to see some more Pictures of your rail road and of course a track diagrame.

Thanks Dave

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Dave,

As you know there are at least 4 or more large scale model railroad web sites available to modelers, all of which are valuable and provide great information. Some modelers which post here on Trains.com also post on the other sites, much of which is duplicated information and photos. I have uploaded several of my photos to a competitive site which allows individual model railroads to be listed by thier builders. Hopefully providing a link to a related large scale forum site will not be viewed negatively by the Trains.com folks since I am unaware of a simular website capability in this forum. You can see my posted pics at http://www.largescaleonline.com/cgi-bin/eimages/eimages.cgi?direct=Team_Member_Pics/jackplon

Here is a basic line drawing (not to scale) of the Tantarra Western Railroad.

Regards,

Jack

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Any sources for the “Plastic Stone” that was mentioned in the original post?

JimC.

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Jack, I don’t think you need to worry about that, as several members here activly refference, link, and/or talk about postings on the other sites. There is an entire rules set available, but the main things fall under the general statment of “play nicely with others, and don’t advertise”. Now as I like to say “It is time to get outside and play in the dirt.” (From your photo’s I would say you do that very well.) [#welcome]