Atlantic and Southern RR - Throw Back Thursday

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[size=2pxI'll show ya'll a neat trick to curved roads in the next installment of Throw Back Thursday.

Anxious to see this.

Coming next Thursday.

Tom

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K, all's forgiven! Thanks for the bone.
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K, all's forgiven! Thanks for the bone.

Brother Thom,

Thank you and you are welcome.

Tom

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One of the things I enjoy building on any layout are the roads - dirt or concrete.

On the old Atlantic Coast Line RR, not yet renamed the Atlantic and Southern RR (also known as the ASS, Atlantic Southern System) my road started against the wall.

The road is concrete and passed under the double track main line.



It then swung Southwest and then West towards Main Street.





More in a few. I better get a cold Diet Pepsi now as I have lots of pictures to post.

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Here it starts to parallel the lower level double track main.

That's me in the black and white waiting for the guy in the station wagon.



Here we see one of FOS' early kits.



More in a few.

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The road just beyond the auto repair is the paved road leading to the old power station, still under construction.




Here we have Main Street and like any good engineer, the street is blocked.




More in a few.

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I wanted to extend the main highway West and North of the South Yard area.




I used a track gauge and drew in where the road needed to go. I called this extension the South Yard Road, very original.



More in a few.

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I went down the road and measured the width of the road. I did this when there was no traffic coming. It measured 19 feet across with no curb.

I made my road 19 feet as well.




Here is how I made this road extension using cork roadbed.

I purchased a large sheet of 2 ply cardboard from Sam Flax Art Supply and placed it over where I wanted the road.

I cut a piece of cork roadbed a scale 19' in length. I took one piece of cork and made the gentle S curve. I then used push pins to hold this piece in place.

I then did the same with the second cork piece using the scale short piece to keep the two pieces a scale 19' in width.



More in a few.

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Continued -

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Using the cork as a guide, the road came out a perfect match to what I drew on the Homosote.




I then cut the roadway out of the cardboard sheet and lay it in place.



I used this same process for the rest of the road.

More in a few.

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I glued the road in place and since it was a paper product, I used any weight I could find to hold it until the glue dried.



When the entire length of the road was complete, I drew in some expansion joints.





More in a few.

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I used the joint between the two road sections as the first expansion joint.



Here is the gentle "S" curve made using the cork roadbed as a guide.

Notice I also finished the South Yard tracks during the road process.



Continued in a few.

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I painted the road with Floquil Primer. This is as far as I got on this layout with the road.

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Great how to Tom.

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T~,
       Just love your ASS modeling!  Wish I knew all about this as you were actually building it.  Nonetheless, I'm glad to know now.  KP-out...