The Niles
Monorail History
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Three of Nine
Support posts and a level keep the 4" X 4"
pylons vertical while I cemented them in. That little redwood
behind is my mom's tree, it now dwarfs the monorail track.
Neighbor and brother-in-law Dan Stevens gives a hand with a 16'
8" beam. The standard guage of rideable garden monorails
is 4" X 8" track. Hey, I say so cuz I made the hobby
up. ;-)
Dan and I accomplish two things at once, stress testing the track
and resting.
We jump ahead a couple of years to April of 1999. By this point
I had worked my way around to the back of the house. Cutting cement
was a new skill I had to learn. Pounding out the holes took considerable
labor. I tried to minimize the number of pylons in areas like
this.
Cement going in.
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