Checking over the garden railway...
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Checking over the garden railway...
getting ready for a run of the big red diesel. I've spent a lot of time recently in the garden. The large cutting became too narrow for the diesel to run through it. I pulled out some of the edging to widen the cutting. Some roots had slowly pushed the sides in, they've been cut out and the width increased a bit. Today I've been pushing the loco around the line checking on the loading gauge. Lots of trimming, including the Pohutukawa "tunnel" cut into its aerial roots. A paver has slipped down the slope slightly and is now the only obstruction on the line for complete circuits. It's been lovely summer weather, and thankfully we've stayed at home
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Dave
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Re: Checking over the garden railway...
Pics? Summer?
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Re: Checking over the garden railway...
Yes, summer in New Zealand, though I hear it's been a bit damp so far. The Pohutukawa and its red flowers are a very iconic symbol of NZ but probably not too familiar to folks overseas.
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Had to look up a photo of the Pohutukawa flower. Similar to the flower of our Mimosa trees that grow in my yard.
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Re: Checking over the garden railway...
It had been, here's the railway water feature on Christmas dayinvicta280 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 30, 2018 3:36 pm Yes, summer in New Zealand, though I hear it's been a bit damp so far.
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Re: Checking over the garden railway...
Here's the pinch point. It hadn't slipped, it was pushed... By a root
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