| 2011 | No work on the SRR; I spent this summer installing an outdoor wood boiler |
| 2010 | August | Completed the tunnel! |
| October | Extended the Big Cut 50 feet. | |
| July | More track, more ballast. | |
| June | Built the chute for the ballast bunker | |
| May | Built a ballast bunker | |
| Extended the track 50' to the ballast bunker. | ||
| 2009 | April | Opened the season by laying some rail! |
| September | Started building the tunnel | |
| August | Finished the Low Trestle | |
| Started the Big Trestle | ||
| Started laying rail! | ||
| July | Finished - yes finished - the 1st half of the Cut | |
| June | Finishing the grade in the 1st half of the Cut | |
| 2008 | May | Back to grading the big cut - I'm determined to finish it this year! |
| October | Did a bunch of surveying and a small amount of grading. Preparing for next spring... | |
| June | Hyperextended my left knee, lost a whole summer's worth of train building :( | |
| 2007 | February | The Big Cut filled with ice |
| December | Began setting the final grade in the big cut | |
| 2006 | October | Started building retaining walls in the big cut |
| 2005 | May | Graded two narrow sections of the right-of-way |
| October | Built a retaining wall around a big beech tree | |
| 2004 | June | Finished the Deck Truss bridge |
| November | 3rd round of grading | |
| October | More grading, this time with a mini-excavator | |
| Started building a deck truss bridge | ||
| September | Began grading the right-of-way with a backhoe | |
| August | Cleared trees from the right-of-way | |
| June | Completed a survey of the trackline | |
| 2003 | May | Built my first piece of rolling stock, a simple 5' flatcar (pics someday...) |
| June | Received initial 250' of rail! | |
| I built a trackbuilding jig | ||
| 2001 | May | Moved into the house |
| June | Began house construction | |
| 2000 | April | Bought the property |
