Building the Potomac Line

[Puddlejumper]

Today I finished building the railings around the platform and up the stairs. Now, except for painting the wheel stops and the rail joiners, weathering, and adding details like tools, buckets, weeds, etc. I consider this trestle finished. Oh, and of course I need to dump some coal and other aggregates in those bins.









I will now spend some time on the yard itself before moving on to trestle #2. On the retaining wall in back of the yard will be bins for firewood. There will be a small building with a scale. Trestle #2 will resemble Steve's coal trestle in that it will be single track, and be at least partially covered to allow storage of salt. Well... maybe anyway. I might scratch offering salt and stay with weather resistant aggregates.

Does anybody know when salt came into common use as an anti-freeze for roads and sidewalks?

Dave