SP RR

[GPdemayo]

Steve,

The angle of the FSM 2 stall engine house appears to be about 15 deg. See the photo below.

If you have any questions, give me a call at 407-834-2183.

[sdrees]

In my last posting, I had permanently installed the staging tracks.  But when it came to do the electrical wiring I ran into problems with shorts.  The fellow who made my turnouts did not do a thorough job in cutting the copper foil on the pc board ties.  As you can imagine, access was a problem in trying to find what was causing the short.  I finally have it all worked out tonight.

[S&S RR]

Attached are the pictures of the staging area in place except for the wiring which I will finish up tomorrow.  Thanks to John Siekirk for the idea to prefab this.  He posted on his site a while back about, prefabbing some roadbed and track inside one of his mountains.

Steve


I'm glad you tried it.  It sure has been saving my back with my inside the mountain track work.

[sdrees]

John,

There would not been any other way to do this in this situation. Thanks again.

[sdrees]

I have been laying track on the upper level.

There will be a turntable and roundhouse at the top of the picture. At the bottom of the picture will be the depot.


The double crossing.


A view from the Roundhouse End.


Nothing is fastened down yet.  I made templates of the switches and double crossing and taped them in place where they should go.  I had an error in my plan. so there was a lot of trial and error in trying to get everything to fit.  Nothing beats a good plan. 

So Frank/Erieman, if you see a few kinks, they will be taken out when the track in fastened in place.

[sdrees]

The track on the upper deck is now fastened in place.  I have been using latex caulk to glue it down.  The elevation of the track in the yard and industrial area is on a different elevation than the main line track.  I sanded the cork roadbed under the switches on each end of the yard.  At the end with the roundhouse, there are several more sidings to put in place, but I will wait until I get the turntable installed and see what industries I will place at that end.

[jbvb]

Errors that turn up early are almost always easy to fix.  Good luck with it!

[sdrees]

Here are the latest pictures on my track laying progress.  These photo's are in the mine area and the logging area.  The mine will be on the left side where the two short spurs are located.  The logging area will be to the far right where the logging spurs are at two different elevations.   

[Janbouli]

Love your work plan Steve, wish I could do it like you, benchwork first then lay all the track and then probably you will start scenery. I don't even know what my next 2 meters of track will look like , doing one scene at a time.

[ak-milw]

Sure going to be a lot of track Steve.

[sdrees]

Hi Jan,

I am a Civil Engineer by profession.  So I need a plan before I do anything.  There were changes as I went along as I had further input from friends after I started.  But everybody has their own way of doing things and different interest.  That is what makes this such a great hobby.

[sdrees]

Hi Andy,

I need lots of tracks to run trains. 

[KCS Trains]

Impressive bench work and track work.  Phil

[Powersteamguy1790]

Looking good Steve.

Stay cool and run steam........

[sdrees]

Thanks Bob and Phil for the nice compliments.  Very much appreciated.