SP RR

[Janbouli]

Great , not sufrin at all looking at these 

[donatode]

Beautiful work Steve.  Thanks

[sdrees]

I am glad you liked the pictures Jan.  And Donato, thanks for the compliment.

[GPdemayo]

Well done Steve.....

[sdrees]

Thanks Greg for the compliment.

[sdrees]

Tom,

I think you have a serious beverage challenger here. Look at all the Coke that Steve has in his room. Hmmm. Just saying,

Steve,

Great photos. Looks like you are making a lot of wonderful progress. Keep up the great work.

Frank / Erieman

Well the coke has been put to good use.  I borrowed it from my wife.  I have been laying track now that the station is complete and I have received some of my switches.  It make good weights for holding the track down.

Last week, several of the local model railroaders were over to see my progress.  One made a suggestion that I add a staging yard to the layout.  After some thought, it could be done by adding it under the upper lever where the yard is taking shape.  I will post a sketch in couple of days after I see how well it will work

[sdrees]

The track finally reached Suphrin today.  The railroad held a golden spike ceremony at the station.

[Raymo]

Nice rebuild on the station. Anything I modeled in high school or shortly there after ended up in a barrel.

[sdrees]

Thanks for stopping by Raymo.  This model was ready for the trash barrel, but I liked it so much that I decided to give it a makeover.  I have other models of buildings that deserve the trash can but I can't part with them.

[sdrees]

I haven't had many pictures to add for a while.  I recently received my NCE Command Control system.  So I have been trying to learn that.  I have it some what installed.  I have it working when tethered to the UTP panel but I am having trouble with the base radio getting to work properly.  I am going to give NCE a call on Monday. 

[sdrees]

You are looking at a full size drawing of the sawmill area.  I am going to start laying track in this area.  Since I used 3rd Planit CAD system, I printed the drawing to a PDF printer.  I then took the file to a blue Print store to get the actual prints.


I placed my dioramas for the sawmill area that I have built over the last several years on the drawing to see how they would look and fit with the track work plan.  The dioramas will have to be modified slightly, but nothing major.  Also the track plan looks like it is going to work OK.



Another view of the building layout.

[Zephyrus52246]

Good to see you had your golden spike ceremony.  There's an NCE yahoo group that might be able to help you solve your problems as well.  Does it work intermittently, or not at all?


Jeff

[ak-milw]

Steve, that's a great looking bunch of buildings going in.

[sdrees]

Jeff,

Thanks for taking a look and see.  I attached the base station to the ceiling, which is 10' high with some metal brackets.  The light fixtures suspended from the ceiling are LED lights.  When I was testing the base station out and it was at table height, it worked fine.  But when I installed it ton the ceiling, I was not getting the right output on the ProCab throttle.  A lot of it was garbage. 

[sdrees]

Thanks for the compliment Andy.  The sawmill can be seen on the following link.

http://modelersforum.com/index.php?topic=1577.0

The locomotive service building and main street are Sierra West kits and they can be found on the Sierra West site at the following links.

http://www.sierrawestscalemodels.com/gallery-2.html

http://www.sierrawestscalemodels.com/gallery.html