Superior & Seattle Railroad Build (Volume 3) Started 7/27/19

[Jerry]

I see Rube Goldberg was alive and well in that first picture!!


Great work!


Jerry

[postalkarl]

Hey John:

You are quite welcome. I very much enjoy your RR.

Karl

[S&S RR]

I see Rube Goldberg was alive and well in that first picture!!

Great work!


Jerry

Jerry


When I'm gluing stuff old Rube is always looking over my shoulder.    I don't like anything to move while the glue is drying.

[S&S RR]

Yesterday, I got started on the loading docks for the Brownsville Depot. I used driftwood Hunterline Stain after distressing the wood with a rasp.

[S&S RR]

I took some reference photographs of the brick and cobblestone streets in Savannah, GA this past weekend. I plan on some brick streets in the older section of Vansel. Here is what the streets in the Historic District looked like.

[Jerry]

Great pictures John.  Sure will make wonderful reference photos.


Jerry

[deemery]

Those brick-shaped pavers look to me more like actual stone than brick.   Great set of reference photos!

(add:  Here's why I think they're stones:  (1) doesn't look like a clay color.  (2) the wavy pattern looks more like sedimentary/metamorphosed sedimentary rock, (3) the relatively random but smooth wear doesn't look like how I remember brick pavers weather.  All this is from my recollection of brick-paved streets in Pittsburgh.  But of course, the bricks in SC might be a lot different than the bricks in western PA.


Oh, and if they were machine cut, they could easily get to that regular a pattern.  A lot of Belgian Block pavers I've seen are regular in size/shape.  )

dave

[S&S RR]

Great pictures John.  Sure will make wonderful reference photos.


Jerry

Jerry


Thank you - They are definitely old.

[S&S RR]

Those brick-shaped pavers look to me more like actual stone than brick.   Great set of reference photos!


dave

Dave


I'm not sure if they were cut stones or bricks when they began service. Lots of wear over the years. If they were cut stones the guy sure was good.  Very uniform size.

[S&S RR]

Update:  Today, I made progress on all three builds on my workbenches. The Brownsville depot has the roof bracing installed and the loading docks for both the front and the back have been completed. I will be adding the main structure and loading docks to the baseboard, tomorrow.  All of the tasks on sheet A have been completed.





The Sayles Mill main building and all of the window castings made it through the paint booth for a coat of primer. The primer I am using is a very light gray.





I also added more details to the S&S RR Crew Quarters (aka SRMW Tucker & Cook) but I didn't take progress picture today.

[S&S RR]

Can you tell where I test the airbrush?

[S&S RR]

Update: Today, I painted all the window castings for Sayles Mill white.  I did my own paint mix with white with a little gray added to tone it down a touch. This was my first attempt at running regular Apple barrel paint from the craft store through my new airbrush.  It worked very well. I thinned it down until it looked like milk. So far I'm happy with the results.


I made incremental progress on my Brownsville Depot build but nothing that was picture worthy. That's it for today's update. It's time to go grill some steaks in the Gazebo.

[S&S RR]

Update: I made some good progress on the Brownsville Depot build, today.  First I added the interior lighting for the main building. I'm trying something different on this build - I'm mounting the stick-on LED's to the wall facing the aisle way so you will not see the bulbs and the light will bounce off the back of the structure. Stay tuned, as soon as the glue dries that is holding the wires in place I will turn out the shop lights and see what it looks like.

[S&S RR]

Here is another picture of the installation from the other side.

[S&S RR]

And here are a couple pictures of the light-up on my workbench.