| 2000 | April | Bought the property |
| June | Began house construction |
| 2001 | May | Moved into the house |
| June | Received initial 250' of rail! | |
| I built a trackbuilding jig |
| 2003 | May | Built my first piece of rolling stock, a simple 5' flatcar (pics someday...) |
| June | Completed a survey of the trackline | |
| August | Cleared trees from the right-of-way | |
| September | Began grading the right-of-way with a backhoe | |
| October | More grading, this time with a mini-excavator | |
| Started building a deck truss bridge | ||
| November | 3rd round of grading |
| 2004 | June | Finished the Deck Truss bridge |
| October | Built a retaining wall around a big beech tree |
| 2005 | May | Graded two narrow sections of the right-of-way |
| 2006 | October | Started building retaining walls in the big cut |
| December | Began setting the final grade in the big cut |