Latest News as of 11/22/2009
This is my completed RGS20 1/8 scale steam locomotive built from parts and castings supplied by Tom Artzberger of Pagosa Springs, Colorado. It took 6 years to build and weighs 1400 pounds with tender. I burns coal and is a very good running engine.
This is the largest bridge on the railroad and was completed in October of 2008. It is 24 feet high and 100 feet long. I mixed 300 wheelbarrows full of concrete for the 10 foot high foundation columns and used a trolley running on a rope across the gulley with a dump box to carry the concrete to the forms so all mixing was done on this side of the gully. The bridge too 2 years to complete. Across the bridge is another 2,000 feet of new track which essentally competes the railroad at about 8,000 feet of track.
