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

[S&S RR]

I also added the two inlet pipes and painted them rail brown  and then followed with a dark rust pan pastel.

[S&S RR]

At this point I have described the steps I went through to produce the color and look of the concrete walls as they sit on my workbench, today.  I'm now going to move on to the structure and leave any further detailing work on the concrete wall until the end where I will blend in the scenery materials for the final scene.

[jerryrbeach]

John,
That's a great transformation from primer to aged concrete, thanks for the photos and explanation. 

[deemery]

Thanks for the great tutorial photos!


dave

[S&S RR]

John,
That's a great transformation from primer to aged concrete, thanks for the photos and explanation.

Jerry


Thanks for the kind words and for following the thread.

[S&S RR]

Thanks for the great tutorial photos!


dave

Dave


Thanks for stopping by the thread and your welcome on the photos. I hope someone finds them helpful.

[jimmillho]

Hard to believe that wall has set around for100 years and the building still isn't done.

Great looking job John.

Jim

[S&S RR]

Hard to believe that wall has set around for100 years and the building still isn't done.

Great looking job John.

Jim

Jim


Good point - I'm going to build it and then make it look 100 years old. Welcome to model railroading.

[S&S RR]

I have been spending the time I had for the layout the last couple of days working on the track changes to the Mt. Aiden Trestle. With the changes I can achieve a 28 inch minimum radius and eliminate the S curve. I think it's going to work! 

[PRR Modeler]

I'm interested in how you fixed the problem. Can you post a picture? 

[S&S RR]

I'm interested in how you fixed the problem. Can you post a picture? 

Curt


I will this weekend - I'm currently on Grandpa duty taking care of my Grandson so his mother can sleep. My daughter works 12 hour nursing shifts at night. I help out when she has to work during the week. Actually finding it to be a lot of fun spending time with him.  I missed a lot of this with my own kids working 10-12 hours a day 6 days a week.

[S&S RR]

The track issue with my trestles is that I created an artistic S curve between the large and small trestles of Mt. Aiden. The trains looked great going through the S but I broke the rule of having a straight between the two curves that was at least as long as my longest locomotive.  The big steam locomotives were derailing. Now, the trains will go around the curve have a straight and then go around the second curve. As I said above, I will post pictures.

[S&S RR]

The trestle track changes have been completed and tested. The problem has been solved.  The next few posts will describe the solution.


Here is what the track work through the area looked like before the changes.  Minimum radius was 28 inches with an S curve.

[S&S RR]

This track configuration worked fine with the diesels and the smaller steam locomotives. But when the larger steam locomotives got to the sharper radius combined with the S they derailed.

[S&S RR]

This is the new track configuration with a minimum of a 32 inch radius and 10 inches of straight rail between the two radii.