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

[S&S RR]

Here is a photograph looking down the industrial area towards the Stone Roundhouse. I currently have 5 or more FSM kits planned for this area.  In the next few days I will be laying out each of the baseboards and playing with different scenarios before I finalize the builds for this area.

[Dave K.]

After the F&SM threads this has been my favorite follow-along. Isaac's looks fantastic in its spot!!!

[tct855]

John,
        I must say your backdrops look great!  The scenes really do look much bigger than they are.  I like the curve of each corner.  Thanx Thom...

[PRR Modeler]

Awesome John. I have been looking closely at the control tower. It will probably be a gift from Santa so I look forward to seeing you build it. I do have a question about the engine house you are working on. I see that you are putting it together before painting. I have never worked with that material, so is it easier to paint everything together rather in parts? Belive me I'm not critiquing but rather I'm curious.

[S&S RR]

After the F&SM threads this has been my favorite follow-along. Isaac's looks fantastic in its spot!!!

Dave


Thank you for the kind words and for following the thread.  I'm looking forward to meeting you at the EXPO.

[Erieman]

Here is a photograph looking down the industrial area towards the Stone Roundhouse. I currently have 5 or more FSM kits planned for this area.  In the next few days I will be laying out each of the baseboards and playing with different scenarios before I finalize the builds for this area.

Good Morning John,


Been lurking but not posting until recently. A few areas on the layout and a couple of structures have kept me quite busy. Love, love, love the scene above. Can't wait to see how you populate it. This view show the background areas that you and Wayne have done a beautiful job on. Keep up the beautiful work.


Frank / Erieman

[S&S RR]

John,
        I must say your backdrops look great!  The scenes really do look much bigger than they are.  I like the curve of each corner.  Thanx Thom...

Thom


Thanks for the kind words.  The framing of the corners was a lot of work but I'm sure glad we did it.

[S&S RR]

Awesome John. I have been looking closely at the control tower. It will probably be a gift from Santa so I look forward to seeing you build it. I do have a question about the engine house you are working on. I see that you are putting it together before painting. I have never worked with that material, so is it easier to paint everything together rather in parts? Belive me I'm not critiquing but rather I'm curious.

Hi Curt


I will be spray painting the Locomotive Works with a gray primer and then using pan pastel chalks to color the stones.  For me, it's much easier to do this with the walls in place on the base board rather than painting them before assembly. It will not be long and the base will be going into the paint booth. The color will match my Stone Roundhouse which you can see in the background of some of the pictures I have posted the last few days.

[S&S RR]

Here is a photograph looking down the industrial area towards the Stone Roundhouse. I currently have 5 or more FSM kits planned for this area.  In the next few days I will be laying out each of the baseboards and playing with different scenarios before I finalize the builds for this area.

Good Morning John,


Been lurking but not posting until recently. A few areas on the layout and a couple of structures have kept me quite busy. Love, love, love the scene above. Can't wait to see how you populate it. This view show the background areas that you and Wayne have done a beautiful job on. Keep up the beautiful work.


Frank / Erieman

Frank


Thanks for stopping by the the thread and the kind words. The last few days I have been making some decisions on which structures will populate this area. The plywood will be an industrial area with businesses that need to be close to the RR line. I will post a few pictures of the plan.

[S&S RR]

This morning I updated the index to volume 1 of this thread. I was in there reviewing how I painted the Stone Roundhouse so I could make the new Locomotive works match. These threads are a very useful modeling tool or is it memory tool.

[S&S RR]

As promised, here are the pictures I took after I completed laying out the base boards for the industrial area of Eagles Nest Yard.  I set the yellow boxes in position to get a feel for what it will look like when the builds are in place, at least by looking at the picture on the box.

[S&S RR]

[S&S RR]

Picture with the Fox Run box in place.  There are a lot of hours of model railroading pleasure between now and getting this area populated with structures.

[Dave K.]

"Sellios Row" is going to be spectacular! 👍🏻

[cuse]

That's going to be awesome!


I like your full-time job better than mine


John