Some rail was bad, hardly worth recycling. As usual the running suface remains smooth to the end.

This is the room for tools. There are various tools to make the Railway.
工具部屋の写真。レール作成のためのさまざまな道具が並んでいる。

This is the tool to make sure that the rail is horizontal. When it`s horizontal, the bubble come between the lines.
これは、レールが水平になっていることを確かめる道具で、水平であれば黄色の気泡が線の真ん中にくる仕組みになっている。

High temperature expands metal. It was a cool day, so we made the small gap between the rails.
気温が高ければ、レールは膨張する。この日は気温が低めだったので、つなぎ目は少し間を開けて固定した。

We finished fixing about 18m railway.
完成♪

We enjoyed hiking after working.
修理の後は、ハイキングを楽しみました！！！

Someone told Lucie from Belgium that she really must visit the garden.

Followed a few minutes later by Yuka who had just arrived that morning from from Yokohama

Relaying a bumpy section using the best of the rail recovered from the earlier replacement work futher down the hill. First remove the old, then adjust the level. There was a young snake resting in the leaf litter between two sleepers here. It looked like a long black worm at first but it had scales and a wide head with eyes. As it was too small to be dangerous we let it go. We hope that it will not come back to bite us one day!

Then add sleepers.

Then knock the rail into the chairs with a mallet.

A swim in the dam as a reward for our hard working crew.

There was once a railway on the bank here. It was used to move boxes of water weed (salvinia) cleared from the surface. The track did not last long because it was made with channel that was strong enough for a truck load of weed, or people, but not for cattle. It was removed before Yuka was born, but one day it might be replaced.

followed by some clean sand and water.

End of the holiday: restored track reconnected to the old, so the main line is open again.

This section had been closed for a year to let the lawn spread across the track. We have just cut slots in the grass to expose the rails again. We expect that the grass between the rails will will be able to survive until next summer.

That night Saya and Wei Ming were our first passengers over the lawn track section.

Bernice drives slowly up to station where there are several other visiting trains.

A cute young fawn that will later grow into a destrcutive feral deer.