The Bridge Over the River Why? - Opening the Garden Railroad and Building a Truss Bridge 2024 

Hi again! Yes, it’s always nice to get outside and get some work done between the O2 cold and oh my gosh it’s too hot weather! Right now we’re in the oh gosh, it’s way too hot part of the year, but every once in a great while it cools off to 90° and we can sort of get outside. (37°C) Just as an aside here I love metric for all things except temperature! What an idiotic system to base temperatures on water! that would be fine if we were water. OK, I get it. We’re made of water, but that’s not the point. The temperatures that we normally experience in the world are best represented in Fahrenheit. Where zero is really really really cold! Below zero is exactly what it sounds like. Oh my gosh way too cold way too far below anything you ever wanna be outside and cold! And 100° is all you gotta be kidding hot. Anything over 100° is life-threatening! So it makes a really nice system for expressing the temperatures that humans expect to run into. 37° is the equivalent of 90°? I absolutely refuse to set the thermostat in my house at 23.654°

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You and me both! I really love the look of it in the winter, and actually it’s the hot sun that does the most damage. It’s just a nature of outdoor railroad I guess.

I would do that if we used it very often. As it is, it’s quite simple to just grab a hold of a little chain and give a pull! I have to fill it up before I can use it, and I really only get one gondola out of one complete load of kitty litter in the mine. So trying to remotely control it is a bit overkill and it probably would screw up out here on the heat and cold. But I’m really getting a kick out of loading the gondola from the mine!!

Reviewed a lot of aquarium gravel for certain things, but it’s really smooth and doesn’t make a very good ballast. The kitty litter that we’re using is just the plain cheap raw clay kitty litter. So it doesn’t clump and it doesn’t change colors and it doesn’t really even absorb any moisture. Sort of absorb moisture and turns of dark gray but then it dries right back out. So far it’s working great.

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Isn’t that track amazing!!!!??

Colonel Boggy March plays in your head. Whistled by 100 guys. Stiff upper lip!

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Oh boy, would we love to do that! My maternal grandmother is from that area. Well sort of south of there Bradford. But OG I love that part of the world!

You'll have to visit the UK and visit the narrow gauge railways in Wales.

We had a little bit of great weather a few weeks ago, which is when I shot most of this video. Now that it’s triple digit I’m working on the bridge inside and in the evening when it cools off a bit, I take the bridge outside to make sure it fits, but when the temperature is over 90°, the temperature of the rails is around 160°!

@@ToyManTelevision yep I know, that's when I run the old iron on the rails, heck ya don't have ta even have power ta make the smoke unit work haha.

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Hi. Bless you too!!

I tried waiting it down and that sort of works. But as long as I have big long plastic tabs that slide down inside the walls, it really holds it in place and it’s very simple to slide it straight up and off. So far that’s working great.

That is awesome!

We really like the look of them outside. Most of the really bad wind damage has happened in the spring. Anyway, as long as everything is anchored down for the most part, it works just fine. Well for the most part! Outdoor railroad is always maintenance intensive

Love too!!!! I’m using Austrian Pines, and miniature Euonymus. And juniper but I’d love to know more about those other trees!

Looking. Great website!!

Karyn had a bonsai Chinese elm. it was really cool, but it died and we haven’t been able to find anything like it. Just your regular Chinese Elm, but with little tiny leaves made a great looking bonsai tree. Do you know anybody that has such such a thing?

I’ve bolted it in place with wingnuts, it’s really secure and also really easy to remove. All of the wiring is on connectors and the two wingnuts can be removed in about 30 seconds and the building lifted off.

I’m hesitant. I don’t want to crack anything. But the JB Is great!

@@ToyManTelevision I have used JB for various repairs around our home. I used one to repair a crack in a PVC pipe for our sprinklers - it went on like gun but hardened like cement and never leaked.

@@ToyManTelevision If you ever decide to get a 23g pin nailer, the Milwaukee cordless M12, while pricey, overall gets the best reviews. I have DeWalt tools but if I was to get a cordless pin nailer, I would get that over the DeWalt even though I’d have to get the kit with a battery and charger.

It’s sort of exist just in pieces. The yard at the East End is finished but isn’t hooked to anything yet the locomotive shop doesn’t have any track in it at all yet, the trestle through the big canyon is finished but isn’t really connected anyway! And from there, it’s all in track, but not really finished, but once we get more put together, we will do a tour. The West End hasn’t even been started yet! It’s turning at the far end of the outside part and the bench work hasn’t even been built yet.

Duck tape has many uses. But often is a bad choice. Gaffer tape is so much better if you’re going to remove it later.

They are out there on eBay. I’m not sure if they’re still made but probably. Generally speaking they’re pretty expensive, but this one was missing some parts and had been broken. Apparently the wind had blown it away long before we ever got it! Anyway, I was able to rebuild it and fabricate some of the missing parts and save a bunch of money. But look for it on eBay. They’re pretty easy to find. And you’ll be surprised at how big they are when you’re actually sitting one on your table. There are really big structure

Hi!! Just the artists acrylics you can even get at Walmart. But! The outdoor rated ones. Still fade and even flake after a while. But even that looks fine on an old building.

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Hum… well the buildings stay out all year. I love the look in winter. I even run when the conditions are good. The mine is quite large. And now it’s really well anchored down. Much better than before. I hope you get feeling better! Tough recovery 🥺