Sleepers and Track

Gday all!!
We have sources a small supply of sleepers and purchased some 10x10mm square steel as rail.
The sleepers are mixed treated and non treated pine 25x25mm and roughly 225mm long. As mentioned in the previous post we have placed these close together for both strength and to closely represent the real thing.

Pictured below is a frinds VR 5" Y Class on our trial 2 metre section of track. As the garden will recieve minimal foot traffic I have opted not to use edging. Fortunantly the whole property has good drainage so no drains were required. The footpath crossing behind the locomotive will be an earlier style VR Flashing Light and Boomgate combination.
This picture shows the close spacing between the sleepers. Since this photo was taken I have re-arranged the sleepers in the turnout formation.

To ensure the track maintains ints gauge and curve we have welded 10x3mm tabs roughly every 300mm on the curve and will extend this distance on the straights.

Next we will continue placing sleepers in the front garden. I would guess there would be close to 1500 sleepers in the front yard alone. Once this is done we can lay the track. The track arrived last week. I ordered 355metres of steel, hopefully itll be enough!!!!! :-)

Adrian