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

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This allowed the gator board base to be lowered 3/4 of an inch.

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This change really helped the look of the elevation and the base board is headed back to the workbench to glue down the concrete walls.

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I also did some layout work for the Jacob's build.  I will be building it with 6 coal bins and the loading conveyer will be at the end of the building.


Here are a few pictures of the base board in place on the layout with the bin roof cards used to establish the space required.

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Looks great John. Watching your layout progress is like time lapse of the real thing. First, there are these massive natural scenes of rocky cliffs. Then, the trestles creep in and provide access followed by structures leading to populated little areas among the mountains. Beautiful work!


John

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Looks great John. Watching your layout progress is like time lapse of the real thing. First, there are these massive natural scenes of rocky cliffs. Then, the trestles creep in and provide access followed by structures leading to populated little areas among the mountains. Beautiful work!


John

John


Thank you for following the thread and for the kind words.  Taking this approach has really helped me make the scenes look natural. The mountain locations were in many cases dictated by hiding some feature of the basement like the support polls, heating ducts, plumbing, stairs, and the general shape of the room. So the track layout was very much like build a real railroad - how do I get a train from here to there with all these mountains in the way. It helps to love mountains and mountain scenery.

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Very nice work John. I bet it was a pain removing a layer of plywood  without destroying everything around it.

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Very nice work John. I bet it was a pain removing a layer of plywood  without destroying everything around it.

Hi Curt


It wasn't to bad.  I put a router bit on the dremel so I would only cut down 3/4 of an inch and cut out the opening.  Getting the plywood loose from the old layout benchwork was a pain - a chisel was required. If you look closely in the hole that I created you can see the old location of a light house from my previous layout.

[deemery]

.... If you look closely in the hole that I created you can see the old location of a light house from my previous layout.

Layout archeology!


dave

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.... If you look closely in the hole that I created you can see the old location of a light house from my previous layout.

Layout archeology!


dave

Exactly! I can't tell you how many times I have found tools when I cut into the old benchwork. Files, track cutters, templates, etc.