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

[S&S RR]

John,
This is another great build with excellent documentation. Thanks, I'm enjoying it!


John

John


Thanks for stopping by and the kind words.

[S&S RR]

Today, I spent most of the day working on my Yard Tower Challenge build but I also made some progress on the Locomotive Works.  The sheeting started going on the wall that will separate the inspection pits from the machine shop.
I also laid down a couple more inches of the wood flooring for the machine shop.

[S&S RR]

The chalk that is left on my workbench from the coloring of wood flooring is giving me a head start on coloring the wall.

[jerryrbeach]

John,

Enjoying the stick built construction of the wall, and the floor is looking more like the prototype than a model.  Great modeling!

[S&S RR]

John,

Enjoying the stick built construction of the wall, and the floor is looking more like the prototype than a model.  Great modeling!

Jerry


Thank you for stopping by the thread and your kind words.  I really love scratch building stick by stick. I have a number of project planed for the layout - the big problem with scratch building is that it take more time and I have a layout I would like to finish some day.

[MAP]

Great progress John.  Wonderful details you're adding.  Thanks for the progress photos!

[S&S RR]

Great progress John.  Wonderful details you're adding.  Thanks for the progress photos!

Mark


Thanks for following along.  I will add more progress photos tomorrow. Today, I finished the floor and started installing the overhead crane over the inspection pits.  Also, finished and weathered the wall which will be the next installation. I also decided to add a foreman's office with an engineering office upstairs in the front of the machine shop. I drew up a template and will begin construction, tomorrow.

[S&S RR]

I did take a picture of the finished wood floor on the machine shop side of the Locomotive Works.

[PRR Modeler]

Nice looking floor. Is the wooden wall you are building going to separate the floors?

[S&S RR]

Nice looking floor. Is the wooden wall you are building going to separate the floors?

Curt

Yes - the wall will be mounted to the wooden floor right at the seam.

[jerryrbeach]

John,
Looks better with each photo you post.

[S&S RR]

John,
Looks better with each photo you post.

Jerry


Thanks for following along - it's time to start adding the details so it should start changing rapidly.

[S&S RR]

I spent and hour on workbench organization, today.  You may have noticed I keep the detail castings and parts for each project in a plastic tray. They really help when you have multiple projects going but they were taking up a lot of workbench space.  So today I made a rack for them. It fits on the shelf above my detailing workbench.

[S&S RR]

There is a slot for one more tray that is on backorder.

[S&S RR]

Also, made some progress on the Locomotive works, the foremen's office, wall, and overhead crane frame are installed.  the foremen's and engineering office is just a test fit.  I will detail it when I decide that it's a go.