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Re: The Potters Orchid Railway
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2023 8:41 pm
by Hydrostatic Dazza
Plod lifted the plastic off the Potters Junction yard area his morning and discovered an effing cane toad has hoped about under the plastic last night and disturbed some soft areas. Never mind, out with the flying gang to do so some repairs today. Locos crews clean their fires while waiting time for the board to drop and thus proceed out of the platform and loop roads onto the next section.
Re: The Potters Orchid Railway
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2023 8:44 pm
by Hydrostatic Dazza
SBR is baking off nicely after 48 hours.
Re: The Potters Orchid Railway
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2023 9:09 pm
by invicta280
Planting and rock faces looking awesome. It really is turning into a railway at home in its landscape.
Re: The Potters Orchid Railway
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2023 7:09 am
by FWLR
MAM's expertise in the greenery is now showing what can be done to elevate garden railway lines to real life and the wildlife will enjoy it also as well as humans.
Re: The Potters Orchid Railway
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2023 9:19 pm
by Peter Butler
I think your ballasting looks spot-on. Clearly the Kingfishers approve too!
Re: The Potters Orchid Railway
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2023 9:59 pm
by Hydrostatic Dazza
Peter Butler wrote: ↑Tue Jan 03, 2023 9:19 pm
I think your ballasting looks spot-on. Clearly the Kingfishers approve too!
Thanks Peter, as I have said before, I followed your ballasting methods.
Thanks !
Re: The Potters Orchid Railway
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2023 10:03 pm
by Hydrostatic Dazza
Incredible what they can do with micro electronics now. The head of the Potters Orchid Railway permanent way uses one of those new fancy drones to inspect the recently ballasted track. This Drone looks remarkably like a dragon fly and has the same maneuverability.
Re: The Potters Orchid Railway
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2023 10:12 pm
by Peter Butler
I think you are building a miniature theme park where passengers can ride in rail mounted 'bubbles' to view your answer to 'Jurassic Park'. You have a great variety of endemic wildlife there.
Re: The Potters Orchid Railway
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2023 7:11 am
by ge_rik
Well, it looks pretty darn good to me. The dye dusting adds another dimension.
I've not noticed the drainage ditch in the cutting before - the whole thing could easily be mistaken for the real thing.
Rik
Re: The Potters Orchid Railway
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2023 9:36 pm
by Hydrostatic Dazza
This morning finds the POR chair of the board doing a bit of line side painting before going off to work. The cactus flowers come out at night and by lunch time are withered and done. The native bees also like these flowers.
Re: The Potters Orchid Railway
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2023 10:04 pm
by Hydrostatic Dazza
ge_rik wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 7:11 am
Well, it looks pretty darn good to me. The dye dusting adds another dimension.
I've not noticed the drainage ditch in the cutting before - the whole thing could easily be mistaken for the real thing.
Rik
I cannot remember seeing or reading about mortar dyes, so I think it is my idea, or was it MAM's idea ?
When it rains here, it can be 2 inches in 30 minutes, so drains we thought would be good, or we might have a lake.
Re: The Potters Orchid Railway
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2023 10:08 pm
by Hydrostatic Dazza
Peter Butler wrote: ↑Tue Jan 03, 2023 10:12 pm
I think you are building a miniature theme park where passengers can ride in rail mounted 'bubbles' to view your answer to 'Jurassic Park'. You have a great variety of endemic wildlife there.
Like this
https://www.experienceoz.com.au/en/cair ... t-cableway
MAM and Plod did this in June last year as well as the 4 day Savannah Lander trip. I can recommend the Savannah Lander.
https://savannahlander.com.au/
Which is all up the Cairns end of Queensland
Re: The Potters Orchid Railway
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:56 am
by GAP
Re: The Potters Orchid Railway
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 6:47 am
by Hydrostatic Dazza
GAP wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:56 am
Hydrostatic Dazza wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:11 pm
We cannot sustain moss growth here in south east Queensland , however the POR's head horticulturist (MAM) discovered 'Pratia - white star creeper'. Kept moist is spreads nicely as a ground cover and keeps bubbling out cute little white flowers. In dry times it seemed to sulk but hangs in. With daily watering from the rain water tanks and the occasional dose of the worm juice water it spreads along in a nice manner. It is a 2 hour round trip to the only nursery known to have these little fellas, so Plod dived into the ethernet and ordered 10 more tube stock on line and they arrived in good nick 3 days later and these are doing well. Plod had never had plants delivered before and he was most pleased with how it went.
Where did you order them from?
Captain Plod googled and found this mob
https://www.australianplantsonline.com.au
Ordered on Thursday, delivered the following Monday.
They were buried late afternoon Monday
Re: The Potters Orchid Railway
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 7:30 am
by FWLR
They look far prettier than our myob....
Re: The Potters Orchid Railway
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:04 am
by Andrew
FWLR wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 7:30 am
They look far prettier than our myob....
Especially after the frost's killed it off until Spring!
Looks like White Star Creeper grows in the UK too:
"A ground-hugging perennial to 1.5cm, forming a mat of tiny, rounded leaves. Throughout summer it produces a mass of star-shaped white flowers to 7mm across. Spreads rapidly. Grow in fertile, loamy, reliably moist soil in full sun to partial shade. No pruning required."
I imagine the trick is to balance the requirement for "reliably moist soil" with its seemingly only tolerating partial shade, but I might buy some and experiment. Thanks Dazza!