Westward Expansion Part II (many pix! FREE BEER!)

Garden Railroading
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Just kidding! Just wanted to see if that will get me as many reads as the free cactus offer!

The C&A has seen a flurry this past week getting the new expansion ready for a family reunion party the missus and I were hosting. Luckily all went as planned and the expansion was mostly completed on time (just some tweaking and planting left to do in the immediate future). The new expansion into the mountains consists of a folded over loop with two tunnels and a bridge.

The crew of the Dunkirk was assigned the local freight today up into the mountains. Here they are approaching the entrance of tunnel 1 –

and out the backside (The retaining walls were created using job leftovers. The lower wall is small tumbled pavers and the upper wall is retaining wall blocks.) -

The track winds up and around past the spur for a future logging camp –

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Nice photos, I really like the last one with the Pennsy E-8.

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So um… where’s the beer?

J/K. Looks great. Really like your tunnel entrances.

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Ein bier bitter!

Like the little old lady “Where’s the beef?”

Where’s the beer?

Looks like you forgot to lay the third level of track. What happened, did you drink up all the beer???

All kidding aside, Looking Good Kind Sir

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OK, yeah got me on the beer!!! But it’s lookn great!

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so what happened to the BEER, BTW good pix nice layout keep up the wonderfull work.

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Thanks for giving out a subatance I can’t have (olny leagely).

Great work though. can’t wait to see how the mill and mine come out! Wounder if the mill will use draglines? [:-,]

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Yeah ya got us on that one Brian…

Keep up the good work, an ya owe us one when yer finished…

Yeah I know… a railroads never finished.

Byron