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My road paving crew tackles a concrete road on the Bear Creek and South Jackson.
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or about a year the dividing line between South Jackson and Mill Bend on my BC&SJ has shown promise of future scenery. But until recently nothing much was happening. A key part of this scene is a road from aisle to backdrop. Joe Fugate has had success paving roads with styrene and I elected to try this method. I have
memories from my youth of roads paved with concrete. The lanes were narrow, and by the time I was old enough to remember anything these roads were getting a bit long in the tooth and showed their age with a number of cracks that were patched with tar to keep them from getting worse. I figured a road like this would look rather cool...
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Figure 1: This highway separates Mill Bend from South Jackson on the author’s BC&SJ railroad. I made the road from .060” styrene. Page 126 • Issue 7 • May/Jun 2010 • Up the Creek column, page 1
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