{"id":77,"date":"2005-12-31T18:43:09","date_gmt":"2005-12-31T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/?p=77"},"modified":"2019-03-27T12:29:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T11:29:23","slug":"05-on-the-lost-hollow-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/05-on-the-lost-hollow-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"’05 on the Lost Hollow Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"

October 19: Placed my order for a Regner Konrad live steam engine with the Train Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n

October 26: UPS delivered the engine today and I’ve been pouring over the documentation. Finding butane cans with the right adapter looks to be the biggest hurdle.<\/p>\n

October 29: Went to Papa Ben’s<\/a> and got a bunch of supplies including some Aristocraft track (5 ft diameter circle plus 12 feet of straight track). This should be enough to get something started in the back yard.<\/p>\n

October 30: The first run for my Konrad engine. Ran it around the circle of track on the patio for 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

November 12: I attended a steamup at John Frank’s house with the Houston live steamers. Had a great time and ran LHR Engine no. 1 for several loops around John’s beautifully landscaped garden railway. Here are some photographs: Katy Fall Steamup<\/a>. It’s clear to me now that I need to get some rolling stock.<\/p>\n

November 19: Steamed up at Zube Park, home of the Houston Area Live Steamers<\/a>. It was their last public run day of the year and we had a lot of interested kids and parents stop by to watch the fun on the #1 gauge track. Engine no. 1 got about six runs in around the big loop. Photos here: Thanksgiving Steamup at Zube Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n

November 20: Robin and I surveyed the east part of the garden in our backyard for the new layout. We plan on putting a small layout within the footprint of the existing bed. It will require us move or remove several existing plants but nothing too important. I plan on using Aristo-Craft sectional track for simplicity and because I know there is a good supply near by at Papa Ben’s. Roadbed will be based on a “harditrim” system used by others in the Houston area.<\/p>\n

November 24: On a lovely Thanksgiving Day, Robin and I started working in the back garden to clear a space for the garden railway. I’ve put together a Flickr set “Clearing the Old Garden<\/a>” to document our progress.<\/p>\n

November 25: We continued to clean up the garden, this time at the west end. We lifted up the flagstone patio we put in a couple of years ago; it really didn’t turn out as well as we expected.<\/p>\n

November 26: A heavy rain is falling in Lost Hollow today, holding up construction. I did join a large number of track sections together in preparation of laying track soon.<\/p>\n

November 27: I ordered the remaining track I needed today off the Internet. Robin and I also visited John Frank to talk about building his techniques of building harditrim roadbed.<\/p>\n

November 30: I spray-painted all of the track I had on hand using various flat camouflage colours from Krylon. Still waiting for the remainder of the track to arrive.<\/p>\n

December 3: Picked up 5 pieces each of 1″x4″x12′ and 1″x6″x12′ harditrim from the local Home Depot. Proceeded to cut out the roadbed for all of the curved sections of the layout. I’ve put together a Flickr set Track and Roadbed<\/a> to document this part of the project.<\/p>\n

December 10: The remaining track has shipped so it looks like I’ll be doing some work on the garden railway over the holidays.<\/p>\n

December 11: We cleaned up the remaining section of the garden today, so we’re all ready for track. New photos here: “Clearing the Old Garden<\/a>”<\/p>\n

December 17: The track finally arrived so I spray-painted it all first thing today. Then I started laying roadbed and track in the garden. Thank goodness for the 3rd Plan-it diagram of the layout as everything fit where it was supposed to. New photos in the “Track and Roadbed<\/a>” photo set.<\/p>\n

December 18: Up early today and back out working in the garden. I completed the west loop and the steamup area. Even took the opportunity to run my engine around the partially completed loop. New photos in the “Track and Roadbed<\/a>” photo set.<\/p>\n

December 23: Finished laying track today. A big job completed and now we can run trains whenever we want. New photos in the “Track and Roadbed<\/a>” photo set.<\/p>\n

December 27: Attended a steamup at Steve Speck’s place today. Steve was the perfect host and we had a great day of weather and steaming. Engine No. 1 pulled a 22-car train around Steve’s layout; I was pretty impressed.<\/p>\n

December 29: Back in the garden today, rebuilding the retaining wall around the front edge of the layout. I’ve put together a Flickr set “Rebuilding the Garden<\/a>” to document this part of the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October 19: Placed my order for a Regner Konrad live steam engine with the Train Department. October 26: UPS delivered the engine today and I’ve been pouring over the documentation. Finding butane cans with the right adapter looks to be the biggest hurdle. October 29: Went to Papa Ben’s and got a bunch of supplies … Continue reading “’05 on the Lost Hollow Railway”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-losthollow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}