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The
idea for the Mount Tubey Railroad started a few years ago when I
saw a G Scale Society Layout at a railway exhibition. We have a
fairly large garden and the top end was a little bare and
undeveloped. I managed to get “planning” permission to build the
first loop and passing siding and construction started about 2
years ago on the left hand side of the garden. Due to the
profile of the garden this was on a 3.5% grade which made for
interesting working. I bought a Bachmann 10 wheeler and an
Aristo-Craft FA1 and a few box cars etc. I latter added a USA
Trains GP-9 and was hugely impressed by its smooth operation and
puling power. We then extended further at the lower end through
the trees on blocks and so it rested until this spring.
Planning permission was given to double the route length at the
top end which involved some fairly major civil works. We needed
to move the shed forward to create a route around the back of it
and then to build the major feature – Mount Tubey. This used up
a lot of the spoil we had created and incorporated a water fall
and pond, and also the bridge and crossover bridge creating the
spiral loop. It also allowed me to create my little mountain
section curving though the rocks. A trip to Canada on the Rocky
Mountaineer allowed me to bring back some USA Trains SP Daylight
F Units and a Santa Fe GP 40 which now also run on the railroad.
The
final extension was on the right hand side of the garden and
built at the end of this summer and is still being finalized. It
is almost a mirror image of the left hand side but I made sure
that the sidings were on the level this time. It contains a
passing loop and some sidings. That is it for the moment as I
have no more plans to extend and planning permission would be
increasingly difficult to obtain.
Bill
Tubey. 2005.
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