It's been a while as I had to wait till my shoulder recovered from an overuse injury (SWMBO keeps banging on about old age) but I have now started taking the upper level, line that came down via the "High" trestle back up "Uphill" to where it started.
To save timber I cut a steel C purlin so it formed a ramp of sorts that carries the track up to a point where it curves and rises up to a bridge which after it crosses will again curve and rise till it gets back to the Upper Level.
I had to join 2 pieces of track part way through the curve and to stop a kink at the joint I soldered the joiners in place to give added strength (I have used this method in HO and it worked well).
I have some artificial turf offcuts and I have placed a piece against the "ramp" to hide it, I will contemplate using more if I can work it into the scenery.
At the moment all components have been "roughed in".
Pictures explain it better than I can, and as usual the blog will be updated in due course.
- Ramp rough in with track lengthwise.JPG (95.79 KiB) Viewed 10413 times
- Curve to bridge from bridge.JPG (97.03 KiB) Viewed 10413 times
- Bridge lengthwise.JPG (98.68 KiB) Viewed 10413 times
- Solder Joint.JPG (103.64 KiB) Viewed 10413 times
- Turf concept trial.JPG (101.94 KiB) Viewed 10413 times