I know that you want to get the grade out of the mud, but a flat grade is not as much fun as one that makes the loco work. I have operated a locomotive at a threshing show with a steep grade a few hundred foot long. An old engineer told us that you set the throttle and use the Johnson bar not the throttle on grades. We would hit the grade and start putting her down in the corner a couple notches at a time. Yes the train would slow but boy would she bark nice coming up the hill.
I've done grading work for 20 years, and you really need to be making small lifts and compacting them as you go up to grade. 12 inches is best, but 24 inches will work. Just dumping the dirt in piles and knocking the top off is going to be problematic in the future as far as settling and getting the track all out of wack up and down like a roller coaster. It's going to be big problems later. Even if you just compact it with the dump truck full of dirt going back and forth over it from side to side or the bulldozer. It will need to be a bit wider so the tires or tracks can cover all the way across the top. That would be better than not doing any compaction at all. The best thing would be a ride on vibratory sheepsfoot compactor. Not having that, the dump truck or dozer would be the next best option with smaller lifts of dirt. It takes longer to do, but taking the track and ballast up and redoing the subgrade later when it's all messed up will be a lot more work. I'd love to come help, but I live in NC a bit far to commute to help. If I lived in Wisconsin or somewhere closer, I'd sure come help. Steam locomotives and moving dirt with heavy equipment are two of my favorite things to do. Hope I helped a little bit with my advice. 👍
@williambryant5946 Thanks for your concern. Without a long explanation, we will be compacting this. It's also too high, and we will also be leaving it settle over the winter before we finish grading.
@LibertyFarmsNeoWilsonRailway Leaving it to settle is a great idea. Compacting it with it being so deep will help some. Leaving it to settle for 6 months will help a lot. Seems like the videos are showing work that's been done for some time, so I'm not sure if y'all have any left to do or not but if you have more to finish I'd strongly suggest you do lifts and compact them as I described in my previous comment. The dozer being an LGP (low ground pressure) machine because of the wide pads would still help with compaction some but rolling back and forth over 2 foot lifts with a loaded dump truck after using the dozer would be enough compaction. That combined with letting it settle for a long while after it gets up to grade would work without needing a vibratory drum roller compactor. I just don't want to see y'all having problems and have to redo anything after the track is in place. Best of luck, and I'll definitely be watching to see how it comes out. 👍
It's not my job It's not my job to run the train The whistle I can't blow. It's not my job to say how far The trains allowed to go. It's not my job to blow the horn or even ring the bell, but let the damn thing jump the track and see who catches hell! Wish I was there helping 👍
I know that you want to get the grade out of the mud, but a flat grade is not as much fun as one that makes the loco work. I have operated a locomotive at a threshing show with a steep grade a few hundred foot long. An old engineer told us that you set the throttle and use the Johnson bar not the throttle on grades. We would hit the grade and start putting her down in the corner a couple notches at a time. Yes the train would slow but boy would she bark nice coming up the hill.
I've done grading work for 20 years, and you really need to be making small lifts and compacting them as you go up to grade. 12 inches is best, but 24 inches will work. Just dumping the dirt in piles and knocking the top off is going to be problematic in the future as far as settling and getting the track all out of wack up and down like a roller coaster. It's going to be big problems later. Even if you just compact it with the dump truck full of dirt going back and forth over it from side to side or the bulldozer. It will need to be a bit wider so the tires or tracks can cover all the way across the top. That would be better than not doing any compaction at all. The best thing would be a ride on vibratory sheepsfoot compactor. Not having that, the dump truck or dozer would be the next best option with smaller lifts of dirt. It takes longer to do, but taking the track and ballast up and redoing the subgrade later when it's all messed up will be a lot more work. I'd love to come help, but I live in NC a bit far to commute to help. If I lived in Wisconsin or somewhere closer, I'd sure come help. Steam locomotives and moving dirt with heavy equipment are two of my favorite things to do. Hope I helped a little bit with my advice. 👍
@williambryant5946 Thanks for your concern. Without a long explanation, we will be compacting this. It's also too high, and we will also be leaving it settle over the winter before we finish grading.
@LibertyFarmsNeoWilsonRailway Leaving it to settle is a great idea. Compacting it with it being so deep will help some. Leaving it to settle for 6 months will help a lot. Seems like the videos are showing work that's been done for some time, so I'm not sure if y'all have any left to do or not but if you have more to finish I'd strongly suggest you do lifts and compact them as I described in my previous comment. The dozer being an LGP (low ground pressure) machine because of the wide pads would still help with compaction some but rolling back and forth over 2 foot lifts with a loaded dump truck after using the dozer would be enough compaction. That combined with letting it settle for a long while after it gets up to grade would work without needing a vibratory drum roller compactor. I just don't want to see y'all having problems and have to redo anything after the track is in place. Best of luck, and I'll definitely be watching to see how it comes out. 👍
@williambryant5946 you are correct! I don't want to do it twice either!!!! Thank for the input.
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It's not my job
It's not my job to run the train
The whistle I can't blow.
It's not my job to say how far
The trains allowed to go.
It's not my job to blow the horn
or even ring the bell,
but let the damn thing jump the track
and see who catches hell!
Wish I was there helping 👍
Are the pipes you installed going to be big enough when the Snow melo
@@RowanMangion1976 yes
Do you have a compactor?
@AustNRail No. Do have one to donate?
new here,, how many miles long is your little railroad?
@@Rottinrock starting with 1 mile