Superior & Seattle Railroad Build (Volume 2) Started 2/25/17

[jimmillho]

John, that is a lot of clear workbench space, I will bet it gets filled up soon.

Jim

[Janbouli]

John , that looks awful , the empty workbenches , what a sad sight 

[S&S RR]

John, that is a lot of clear workbench space, I will bet it gets filled up soon.

Jim

Jim


I have already started.

[S&S RR]

John , that looks awful , the empty workbenches , what a sad sight 

Jan


Your right, I need to get them filled up again as quick as possible.

[Jerry]

John the diorama looks wonderful.  Excellent job on those two buildings.

Jerry

[ACL1504]

John,

Wow, they surely do look fantastic. Great job on the structures and diorama, it must weight a lot.

Tom

[PRR Modeler]

Your latest build looks great and the water redo came out really well.

[Mark Dalrymple]

A fantastic scene, John!

I was looking back over your plan - I did some figures to work out where my 'large' layout would fit and yours is enormous!  Do all the numbers refer to pages of the thread?  It is a truly mammoth project!

Cheers, Mark.

[S&S RR]

John the diorama looks wonderful.  Excellent job on those two buildings.

Jerry

Jerry


Thank you for the kind words.

[S&S RR]

John,

Wow, they surely do look fantastic. Great job on the structures and diorama, it must weight a lot.

Tom

Thank you for the kind words my friend. It doesn't weight to much, lots of foam.  I would guess 30 pounds. Most of the weight is the stones I added for the scenery.

[S&S RR]

Your latest build looks great and the water redo came out really well.

Curt


Thank you - I'm happy with the water for the location on the layout.  The big surprise for me on the redo was how much the acrylic materials darkened the colors I used for the bottom of the pond.

[S&S RR]

A fantastic scene, John!

I was looking back over your plan - I did some figures to work out where my 'large' layout would fit and yours is enormous!  Do all the numbers refer to pages of the thread?  It is a truly mammoth project!

Cheers, Mark.

Mark


This layout is a lifetime project so yes it's big by home layout standards. The current layout is about 1200 square feet minus the areas for the furnace and workshop.  The addition that I will be getting started on this summer will be another 20 x 40 feet but more than half of that space will be crew quarters. Any future expansion will consume crew quarters space currently unapproved for expansion by the CFO of the S&S RR.   CFO=Boss=wife.


The numbers that you see on the diagram are track power block numbers.  Each block of track can be turned on and off by the switches you see on the lower benchwork.  This really helps when I leave a pair of pliers inside one of tunnels and need to find a short.  It also allows me to turn off the sound to a locomotive when it's on a storage siding. The layout has 9 power districts and 120 power blocks as currently designed.

[deemery]

Do you have a "it's finally dry" photo of the water?


dave

[S&S RR]

Do you have a "it's finally dry" photo of the water?


dave

Dave


Not yet, I have the diorama on the layout with the back facing me for additional work.  I will turn it around in the next couple of days and take a "it's finally dry photograph".  The pond is dry but the water in water fall area is still curing.

[deemery]

Looking forward to it!  I thought you might need a couple more days of cure. 


dave