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JT&S Grand Scale Ry. Workday Schedule:
Note: The May 31st workday has been cancelled. We are adjourned for the season. Have a great summer!
5/4/08- 15” Gauge Spring Meet Report.
Our best Meet yet! Check back soon for a full report.
Click here! The Roundhouse Fundraiser is on!
8"x10" matted art-director rendering of the future JT&S GSRy Roundhouse, by former Disney Imagineering artist Steve Abernathy, available for a $100.00 donation to the Roundhouse Fund.
Roundhouse Fundraiser - Click Here
3/31/08- 15” Gauge Engine Facility End of Season Report:
Looking south at the roundhouse foundation and turntable pit.
We are quickly coming to the end of another exciting and successful season on the Grand Scale Railroad at the Joshua Tree and Southern Railroad Museum. This season’s achievements would be the construction of the turntable pit for the 15” Gauge Turntable. Where there was only talk and dreams of such an amazing structure, it is now a physical and very imposing piece of the total engine facility puzzle.
More than 21 feet in diameter, the turntable project demonstrates both the scale and scope of just what it is we have set out to achieve. And thanks to the dedicated and driven crew of the 15” gauge railroad, this dream of ours is now reality. There is still work to do in order to get it up and running as well as “aging and graining” (A fifty dollar term meaning to create a distressed finish) . But make no mistake about it, size does apparently matter. And folks, it is just plain big!
The other major accomplishment was the installation of water/electricity/air throughout the yard area. This addition has proved to be the most helpful for accomplishing just about every project, large or small. Also, it will prove vital once the tracks are in and we are in full operation. Infrastructure is a great thing!
So what is next for the 15” gauge engine facility? We plan to begin final construction on the roundhouse in October. What will that take? The roundhouse will take somewhere between $15,000 and $20,000 worth of construction materials. And where might you ask is this money coming from? Donations.
Of the seven stalls being constructed, two are museum stalls where five are museum member stalls. About $10,000 is coming from the various members who are opting to buy in initially. The balance will come from other sources. Hence, a new fund raiser program is being put together and there will be more information regarding that in the next few weeks on the museum’s website.
For now, we invite all to come up and see what is soon become a world class railroading icon and hopefully pass along some of the inspirational fire that we feel when working and sweating together on these spectacular projects.
See you up the hill,
Kenny Eells
Ken and William curving the pit rail .
March workday:
Bill Shepherd setting concrete anchors in the new turntable pit wall built by him and Tom Arnold.
Dick, Mike and Joseph bolt together the steel structure that will become the new picnic shelter.
Bill Souder placing rocks in his "Zen" garden.
