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

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Today, I completed the work on the Stone work to the point where I wanted to take some pictures to see where I might need to do some touch-up work. Here is what it looks like at this point. I have a few areas that need some more work with the eraser.

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The joint line above the doors will be covered by a sign, just like it was on the Stone Roundhouse.

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The next step, was to mount the gator foam baseboard to the 3/4 inch plywood base that will be mounted to the layout. The plywood baseboard will house the inspection pits and provide the rigidity needed to start the detailing of this structure. Do you think I used enough weights to glue it down?

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While the glue was drying I assembled, painted, and added glass to a dozen or so more windows.  The upper roof structures require 56 windows, and the lower requires 28 windows which come in two pieces, the rectangular lower and half round uppers.

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After the glue was dry on the baseboard I started the process of fitting the inspection pit pieces and getting ready to put in the floor.  As I mentioned earlier, the inspection pit side of the building is going to have a brick floor.  The machine shop side of the building will have a wood floor.  I just couldn't put a wood floor in a building with steam locomotives.  The brick in this case will be from Monster Modelworks.

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In this picture you can see the siding that will run along the side of the building.

[bparrish]

John...

Pretty amazing stuff

Thanx
Bob

[S&S RR]

John...

Pretty amazing stuff

Thanx
Bob

Bob


Thanks for stopping by - the workbenches have a lot of activity this time of the year.

[deemery]

I've seen several roundhouses with wood (posts on end) floors, because the wood absorbs oil spills and also doesn't get destroyed if something heavy drops on it.


dave

[PRR Modeler]

Amazing modeling John.

[Twopoint2]

Looks good John top shelf as always.

[S&S RR]

I've seen several roundhouses with wood (posts on end) floors, because the wood absorbs oil spills and also doesn't get destroyed if something heavy drops on it.


dave

David


I agree that many roundhouses had wood floors and many burned down.  I like the idea of having the two different types of floors and can definitely justify doing it that way from an Engineering and Safety, perspective. I spent most of my career in and out of machine shops and die shops  where big stuff was getting dropped from cranes.  Brick floors repair about as fast as wood when things go wrong. I saw two fires, when the welders set the oil soaked wood floor on fire. It took all hands to keep the place from burning down.

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Amazing modeling John.

Curt


Thanks for the kind words.

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Looks good John top shelf as always.

Jim


Thanks for stopping by the thread and the kind words.