Mike Reilley's Bernardo Mountain and Felicita Creek Garden Railroad
Planning and design:
(in process, Mike will put some information here to give us an idea on his decision making process and basic ideas for the railroad.
Below is the overall track plan:
Phase 1: Initial Construction
Before the GRR:
Laying track on ground to make cardboard roadbed forms:
Track on completed cardboard forms for roadbed placement:
Setting the roadbed forms around the cardboard pattern:
Roadbed forms, wire reinforcement, and Trex screw blocks installed
First concrete pour:
First wye done:
Track screwed to roadbed
Second wye installed
Forms for wall footing
Footing for wall:
Concrete plant:
Wall installed:
Trex screw blocks added:
Blocks filled:
Track installed:
Rock & topsoil - 23 tons!
Major dirt and rock work done...Future site of Bernardo
Viaduct parts:
Painted viaduct parts:
Suspending the viaduct for leveling
Forming for the viaduct pier foundations
Completed viaduct:
Making terrazzo roadbed
Finished terrazo roadbed, dead level
Future site of Felicita
Future site of Alamo
Phase 2: Adding a trestle and 1880's cabin
Roadbed forms along the pool:
Roadbed forms for 3rd wye sfter stripping the shed of its exterior:
Hodges loop goes in:
Sorting redwood pieces for the trestle:
Trestle curve construction:
Trestle straights:
Filling the forms in the wye:
Hodges loop concrete installation:
Wyeknot roadbed:
New drainage system for train shed:
Roofing over the old shed roof:
Train shed porch & entry roadbed:
False front added to shed:
Porch cover goes in:
Grading for the new pathway:
Shed complete, walkway base installed:
Hodges after a good rain, adjustment needed:
Track and flagstone wallk goes in:
Felicita walk goes in:
