This doesn’t feel like it’s going anywhere at present - a lack of commitment. Either you’re building a railway in your garden, or you’re merely skulking in the shrubbery, thrusting a track plan behind your back and muttering “Who, me?” when accused. I need a plan.
- Buy the track. Really, I can’t realistically go further in any way without this. Review the monthly budget, complete some eBay sales and then place the order.
- Lay track around the two outer edges of the lawn, including the curve. This will give an end-to-end run of approximately twenty feet, which isn’t very interesting but is a clear indication that this project is happening. It will also prove (or not) my chosen tracklaying method.
- Buy some sort of vehicle, even if it’s only a secondhand wagon from eBay. Then I can test the track and at least see which way it falls. (Come to think of it, I already have a secondhand O gauge wagon, even if it is in bright yellow plastic.)
I’ve got a week off at the end of October, an ideal chance to really break the back of this (or at least someone’s back). Note that the eldest JRA is on half-term hols too so it’s not exactly “free time”, but there ought to be an opportunity to work outside at some point. If I then get no further until next spring, at least I can spend the winter indoors building wagon and station kits, knowing there will be somewhere to put them.
The salvage operation on eBay is going particularly well, already showing a profit over eighty pounds which will go a decent way towards track costs. Most of what’s left to sell is odds and sods, but I think we’ll make the ton.
Onward! And upward! (Literally.)