Last Saturday ground cover in the area of the North tunnel entrance was added. Today a friend returned to me a diesel that he had converted the decals from Huron Central to Quebec Gatineau.

If I can figure out how to do it, I will add a short video of the engine pulling out a tank car from the local fuel distributor .

Shoring up the line

The curve at the bottom of the Moose Rock Grade developed a negative superelevation, (Not sure there is such a thing ) but what was happening was the train leaned outwards instead of inwards when going around the curve. The outside rail had to be elevated to provide a superelevation. To do this a structure of logs, ties, gravel and dirt was constructed to hold up the rail thrugh the curve.



Construction on the KIP continues

Today the crew continued work on the KIP.

Gordon worked on providing electricty to the village of Kipawa.

Umm! I see the lights are on in Kipawa thanks to Gord, but I see someone driving without head lights. Have to fix that :-)).

Last week Colin and his crew (Himself) installed stone retaining walls. This week the ballast was added and the vegetation trimmed (Installed).

Meanwhile business goes on:





Soggy underpinings

The KIP line passes through some fairly wet areasCalls to shore up those areas is fairly common. Today the maintenance gang installed a great deal of rock work to shore up the elevated track just outside of the village.

In addition all the water running from the end of Moose Rock, caused the track on the curve to sink creating a negative super elevation, i.e. elevation towards the outside of the curve vice inside. The solution .... elevate the outside rail and build a retaining wall to maintain the roadbead in a proper super-elevation. Here we see the track being elevated and the beginings of the retaining wall, more to come....

The waterfall part 2

Well the rush of water has been contained and things seem to be under control. - (Read the enviro tex and waterfall itself have dired and some highlights of white added to the falls).

There is still a bit of work around the outer edges of the water below the trestles. Once that is done the highlight corner of the layout will be complete. Meanwhile work must continue on the building of the Diesel House. More to follow.

Diesel servicing facility

All railways need somewhere to maintain their engines. To handle this, the KIP decided it needed to upgrade it's facilities and started excavation for a new shop.

The waterfall

On my model railroad there is a deep gorge, crossed by two trestles, that had creek slowly running down the rock face into the bottom of the gorge. Today, the dam up river broke and a new waterfall was created, (By my friend Colin Churcher: http://www.railways.incanada.net/ .) Now it is no longer a gorge with a creek in the bottom.