Category: Railroad

This past Thursday, John came to continue track levelling to handle ballast trains, staying until sundown. Bob came Sunday and continued building panels for phase 2. Stephen installed more storage tracks in the train shed.

At the April 19 Workday, the focus was filling in ties and the initial ballasting of all the track past the bridges. Great work! Photos from Stephen: Photos from Tim:

Ken decided to add the Agua Dulce siding and arrived early to get the switch on the trestle installed. Everybody loves a curved switch on a trestle! A great crew arrived Saturday: Hank and Lil diverted from their winter trip to Florida to come to a couple of meets in Texas that sandwiched our workday.…

Ken showed up early two days early and laid panels around the loop, almost completing it with nearly 60 panels. This is the final loop of phase 1. The workday focused on aligning and setting a bridge and laying the final track panels. At the end of the day, the final fish plate was added…

Last week brought a lot of progress as we finished the long bridge spans and returned to laying panels on grade. Ken arrived early in the week and finished the bridge ties on the steel spans and then installed the final 16′ of trestle. Bob was busy building panels on Wednesday. John O came out…

Mother Nature brought an arctic blast to all of Texas this past week which prompted the annual Houston Area Live Steamers Chugga Chilifest train meet activities to be curtailed. (The county even turned off the water to the park for the first portion of the meet.) Several railroaders from Central Texas opted stay warm by…

On February 16th and 17th, Stephen spent time welding up the lift bridge frame while John was installing guard rails on the trestle. (The lift bridge mechanism is part of phase 2. It is a stationary span for now.)

February 8th was another huge day on the Austin & Texas Central. Stephen and Lori had to leave for a funeral, but that didn’t stop everyone else from working on the railroad. The primary goal was to install the bridge ties and rail on the trestle and the crew really came through. Attendees: John O,…

This past weekend…