Re: Garden railroads

Rich: How does one keep ground from shifting and moving in Iowa winters
and spring thaws?? Are we talking about moving not at all or as little
as possible?



Melody, IA (Z 5/4)

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 --- On Tue 10/14, Richard T. Apking < richa@midlands.net > wrote:
From: Richard T. Apking [mailto: richa@midlands.net]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:49:08 -0700
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Garden railroads

Hi Donna,<br><br>At first I went totally insane and poured reinforced
concrete in trenches.<br>I eventually caught common sense and started
using a crushed stone product<br>called half and less, meaning that the
stone was crushed to 1/2" diameter<br>and less. Worked pretty well, some
of it has been in place for 5 years.<br><br>I imagine his gravels would
work, the main thing is that the roadbed not<br>shift or move from frost
and freezing. Rich in Z-5<br>----- Original Message -----<br>From:
"Donna " <justme@prairieinet.net><br>To: <gardenchat@hort.net><br>Sent:
Monday, October 13, 2003 6:56 PM<br>Subject: RE: [CHAT] Garden
railroads<br><br><br>> What did you use Rich?<br>><br>> DH has mounds of
stuff!.... like this kinda gravel, then that kinda<br>> gravel, then
crushed rock, then chicken grit.... now talking about using<br>> rain
gutters:(<br>><br>> Donna<br>><br>> > Hi again Melody,<br>> ><br>> > I
neglected the last part of your letter.<br>> ><br>> > My biggest mistake
was being in too much of a hurry, and not planning<br>> for<br>> >
expansion of the railroad.<br>> ><br>> > I should have planned a little
longer, it would have saved two<br>> teardowns<br>> > that should have
been expansions. If I did anything correctly, it was<br>> > that<br>> >
I built my sub roadbed almost as well as the Romans built their
roads.<br>> > Rich<br>> > in Z-5<br>><br>>
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