Once Upon A Time In The West..

Mikronboy

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Hi all,

I'm slowly making headway with my proposed "Wild West" garden railway. I shall soon be laying track. The base is to be of heavy duty concrete 60 cm x 60cm slabs, buff in colour which should be ideally suited for a semi-desert scenario. I'm just wondering if anyone has any ideas of the best materials for track ballast that would blend in with my theme? The Youtube video gives a good idea of what I'm trying to achieve. Many thanks!

 
Unfortunately that doesn't show a clear veiw of the track, but with the vast disatnces that they had to travel I susoect there was little in the way of true ballast that wasn't available next to the track. Loose laid on the slabs will probably give the best effect.

Others may know better.
 
Ballast on concrete slab don't work.

Clicked on this thread because of its title, the same as one of my favourite movies..... you'll need to install a squeaky windmill on your layout, and have a swinging sign that says 'Station'!
 
Forget the track ballast, there's a very European (Austrian) type of 4-wheel freight van with brakeman's cabin.

Where on earth did that come from?
 
But how will you get Charles Bronson to play trains with you.....:wasntme:
 
Rhinochugger said:
Forget the track ballast, there's a very European (Austrian) type of 4-wheel freight van with brakeman's cabin.

Where on earth did that come from?
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I wonder if it was filmed somewhere in, say, South America, with odd bits of local rolling stock that had been imported over the years from almost everywhere?

Jon.
 
The film was filmed at various locations in the USA and Spain. The opening sequence with the gunmen waiting for the train to arrive at the station was filmed north of La Calahorra, Granada, Spain.

David
 
It might have something to do with the location of that scene, near Guadix in Spain.
 
Lots of red dust and other material was imported from Monument Valley Utah to Spain and Italy to add an air of authenticity to the scenes.
To my mind one of the best western films ever made.
 
Oooh interesting - weren't some bits of the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns filmed on Chobham Common?
 
I saw the film while "Vacationing" on the Ho-Chi-Minh trail in 1968 or maybe early'69. The scene where henry Fonda shots the boy was quite shocking back then. Not just for the killing of the boy but for Henry Fonda to be the villain.

 
Bronson, facing the 3 outlaws...

'Bring a horse for me?'

Outlaw: 'We seem to shy one horse'

Bronson: 'Looks like you brought two too many'.
 
Crushed red sand stone with a weak mix of portland cement - say 8 sand to 1 cement?
 
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