That is looking great. Learning from your trials and errors helps me out a lot. Looking forward to the bridge over the river why build. Thanks for sharing. GOD BLESS 🚂 ❤ 🚂 ❤ 🚂 ❤

👍👍 As per usual , great sharing of experience . As we approach the 4th , re-watching your Follow the Flag upload of 11-21-23 , goosebumps . . . 🎇🎆🎇

I understand why you've built your outdoor railroad elevated, at our age it's best that we are not always on our hands and knees

Never boring. Looking fantastic

Great vidio, like how you did the rocks, good idea with the plant pots.Thanks for the morning coffee...

Fascinating outdoor work. Great idea with the Sage Brush for a tree. Great video!!!

Nice work looks great. Another great video thanks for sharing. Have a great weekend.

One idea that would be interesting is to have a small portion of the layout that looks as though the railroad is going through dredge tailings Pull a bit of inspiration from the sumpter valley

Looking good Dale and Karen.

Cat litter looks perfect for track ballast. And ore for one of your gondola cars.

I've been putting up videos over the weekend of running excursion train sessions on my layout for my railroad's railfest

I’m glad a few broken pavers have some use in helping you rebuild your canyon walls on your garden railroad. Working with mortar or cement mix in color like that looks like fun. But it’s hard work. You want a good consistency. And has to be easy to carve a canyon or mountain pass. Also the railroad looks great with that truss bridge.

nice work looking good

Dale, Do you know what "kitty litter" (aka oil dry) is? You may not believe this, but it is the sludge from the waste water treatment plant, dried out and ground Way back in the 1950's the treatment plant, in my home town, would give away the stuff, A guy there would come with a dump truck and get a load, go home and bag the stuff up and sell it. He made quite a lot of money. Finally, the city figured out what he was doing and started charging for the stuff. That's the story I heard, any way, but that IS what "Kitty Litter" is made of. The rail road is looking better all the time. I am looking forward to seeing that bridge completed. ;-)

It looks great to mee

You could try some mulch locking glue on some of the smaller crumple to make it look like natural erosion. It drys clear and has been durable for 3 years, do far, in South Carolina. I’ve started using it to secure track ballast.

Thanks 😊

Hey, Dale. Thanks for the tip about mortar. I've got a small retaining wall with cinder blocks that I've been delaying to build because, well, just because! I want to use small batches too but didn't know about mixing it first. (Aren't those 80 pound bags of mortar so fun to move around?) I'm going to put it in a trash can and mix it up first then use what I want and not get caught with a lot of mortar mix setting up before I'm ready to use it. Thanks again! Your rock walls look great!

The river Why could just be a dry river bed that you could make and only gets wet during a rain. Just a thought.

The debris you removed from the scenery (that is not placed back at the base) can be used to add to track ballast. You probably thought of that though. You could also flex the mixing tub too to remove more material; waste not... want not... sort of thing; make copper wire out of a copper penny.

Carving those rocks reminds me of a rock by my house we called Indian Head Rock that would look good on your Railroad Google Indian Head Rock Verona PA there are pictures of it

Just a thought...have you considered building a roof over your outdoor railroad to reduce the temperature swings and the kitty litter from getting wet? It would also deduce expansion and contraction of the rails. What are your thoughts?

Watching you mold the earthen scenes with your hands makes me think of the saying: The hand of God. Good comparison?

Also if you can run DC engines on this railroad that is DCC you can run some of your other locomotives like D&RG C-19 Consolidation 346 with the rotary snow plow. And Eureka (with a new gear) and Glenbrook. But I feel this railroad clearly belongs to the 2 outside frame Connies Silverton Northern 34 and Mexicano 14. I truly think Eureka, Glenbrook, and 346 should be kept as DC. And it looks not only impossible to add DCC to your Eureka engine, but a little dangerous too as a Phoenix sound unit can overheat. It is beneficial that with Eureka free rolling it’s easier to doublehead with Glenbrook like they did in 2021 at Cumbres and Toltec. But you don’t have to doublehead all the time.

Assuming you use non-clumping kitty litter or it will melt in the rain.

Dale, Great Job!!! What do your neighbors think of all this ???