The Atlantic and Southern Build Thread Continued, Part 2

ACL1504 · July 19, 2018, 04:02:13 PM

Quote from: deemery on July 17, 2018, 05:42:01 PM
My metric for "tedious and delicate" is not 'time', but 'cusswords'. :-)

dave

Dave,

Yes, I had a few of those moments as well on this coal tower.

Tom

ACL1504 · July 19, 2018, 04:04:14 PM

Quote from: PRR Modeler on July 17, 2018, 06:34:28 PM
Beautiful modeling Tom. I may have some small chain also,, but I have to do some searching.

Curt,

Thank you much appreciated. If you find the chain, I'll be happy to make the purchase.

Tom

ACL1504 · July 19, 2018, 04:06:20 PM

Quote from: sdrees on July 17, 2018, 09:24:18 PM
Looking good Tom, keep it up.

Steve,

Thanks very much. I has kept me busy.

Tom

ACL1504 · July 19, 2018, 04:07:22 PM

Quote from: Judge on July 17, 2018, 10:15:08 PM
Tom - I like the clean-out rack. Nice touch. Probably need at least two to service three ash pits. The A&S can work another one into the budget if the CEO approves.

The Judge

Judge,

Much appreciated, I figured you'd like it. I have many other details planned for the area also.

Tom

ACL1504 · July 19, 2018, 04:09:57 PM

Quote from: deemery on July 18, 2018, 08:16:18 AM
Quote from: Judge on July 17, 2018, 10:15:08 PM
Tom - I like the clean-out rack. Nice touch. Probably need at least two to service three ash pits. The A&S can work another one into the budget if the CEO approves.

The Judge
It's the CFO who's the problem for these kinds of acquisitions :-) :-)

dave

The Babe is a quasi CFO but when she asks about something she gets the standard response, "Oh Babe, I've had that for awhile. Don't you remember?"

Tom

ACL1504 · July 19, 2018, 04:11:36 PM

Quote from: Judge on July 18, 2018, 03:14:23 PM
Oh no, Dave! The A&S (Atlantic & Southern) only has two officers on its Board of Directors - The CEO and the Ticket Agent. The latter is a lazy lout who does little real work but makes a lot of suggestions. The ticket agent isn't real busy selling tickets either because the A&S only has one heavy weight coach and it is out of service most of the time due to flat wheels. However, there are a number of employees working for the A&S. Will Fixer is in charge of maintenance and Seaboard ("Always late") Jackson is the passenger conductor. The brakeman is known as "Shack" and nobody knows his real name. He isn't expected to last longer than one pay day so nobody cares. He is an experienced "boomer" though - only a thumb and index finger on his right hand. With a team like this it's no wonder that the CEO received a standing ovation when the A&S declared a $.o1 dividend in June of this year at the annual shareholder's meeting. The annual shareholder's meeting is temporarily being held above the service station located just north of the Sanlando passenger station. Eventually, the A&S will construct a Headquarters building in downtown Tahope and shareholder's meetings will be held there. And that's the inside scoop.

The Judge

Judge,

Great response, and yes, we do have some very colorful workers on the A&S RR.

Tom

ACL1504 · July 19, 2018, 04:12:29 PM

Quote from: BandOGuy on July 18, 2018, 04:35:33 PM
Quote from: Judge on July 18, 2018, 03:14:23 PM
Oh no, Dave! The A&S (Atlantic & Southern) only has two officers on its Board of Directors - The CEO and the Ticket Agent. The latter is a lazy lout who does little real work but makes a lot of suggestions. The ticket agent isn't real busy selling tickets either because the A&S only has one heavy weight coach and it is out of service most of the time due to flat wheels. However, there are a number of employees working for the A&S. Will Fixer is in charge of maintenance and Seaboard ("Always late") Jackson is the passenger conductor. The brakeman is known as "Shack" and nobody knows his real name. He isn't expected to last longer than one pay day so nobody cares. He is an experienced "boomer" though - only a thumb and index finger on his right hand. With a team like this it's no wonder that the CEO received a standing ovation when the A&S declared a $.o1 dividend in June of this year at the annual shareholder's meeting. The annual shareholder's meeting is temporarily being held above the service station located just north of the Sanlando passenger station. Eventually, the A&S will construct a Headquarters building in downtown Tahope and shareholder's meetings will be held there. And that's the inside scoop.

The Judge

Wonder if the judge showed this kind of humor from the bench?

I know he did a few times. However, those are his stories.

Tom

ACL1504 · July 19, 2018, 04:16:03 PM

I've been making some progress on the railroad roundhouse area. I added 10X10 beams for the retaining wall on the coal shed track.

I also made some wall supports with N&Bs.

More in a few.

ACL1504 · July 19, 2018, 04:17:18 PM

I spaced the supports and then glued them in place.

ACL1504 · July 19, 2018, 04:18:59 PM

The scratch built sand bin/bunker was finished yesterday.

ACL1504 · July 19, 2018, 04:19:43 PM

ACL1504 · July 27, 2018, 04:53:42 PM

I applied a wash of Hunterline Creosote Black to the outside walls of the roundhouse.

More in a few.

ACL1504 · July 27, 2018, 04:56:12 PM

I finished the installation of the LEDs, all 36, in the roundhouse.

More in a few.

ACL1504 · July 27, 2018, 04:58:42 PM

The LEDs were wired and all wires were fed down through brass tubes I installed. I'll wire them to the terminal strips at a later date.

Continued in a few.

ACL1504 · July 27, 2018, 05:05:48 PM

I've spent several hours on kit bashing the coaling tower and coal shed.

I finished the coal chutes and added the HO scale chains to the sides.

Prior to moving to the installation of the platforms, I added quite a bit of dark weathering. I first dusted the coaling tower with powered black pigments. I then added a wash of Hunterline Driftwood A&I mix to the powers. I set the entire tower aside to dry for a day.

More in a few.