Larry and all, The Medford Railroad Park is very much alive and active, April through October. The Garden Scale Layout was quickly repaired and improved after suffering vandalism a year and a half ago. However It is not really suitable for running live steam (grades, sharp curves, and above all the steam oil mess would not be tolerated by the sparky engineers who make up 98% of the club. I am the only active club member at the moment interested in running live steam. There are others in the general area who would definitely jump in to help with a track and fire up live steam equipment once we get the ball rolling.
The best location for a portable SSLive Steam track next to the present garden railway was just taken over by the full-scale guys. They built a full-sized track on which they plan to run speeders this 2006 season. But I'm sure we could "stake out" another area somewhere in the park. I'll eye-ball scan the remaining real estate next time I'm over at the park. My home real estate would allow for square elevated track perhaps 50 ft. on a side. I'd have to erect a chain-link fence, before I would put up any right-of-way in the front yard. That would allow well over 100 ft. straight runs north and south on each side of the house. Hmmm. John P. _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: [email protected] Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html
