Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[S&S RR]

On this bench I have the rest of the bin pieces drying and the roof wood and castings.

[S&S RR]

On my center bench is the platform castings ready for the paint booth and the roof and conveyer wood parts in the process of staining.

[S&S RR]

Finally, for today is one of the methods you can use to establish whether the old FSM kit you bought off from eBay years ago is authentic.
If you look closely in this picture you will see the FSM worms.  They are what is left of the rubber bands that George used to hold the batches of strip wood together when he packed the kit years ago. They are hard and usually sticking to either one of the casting or the strip wood. They don't hurt anything and are very easy to get off. You will also notice that the bag labels are more yellow than your birth certificate.

[S&S RR]

I took a few pictures at the end of the day today to show the progress I have been making.

[S&S RR]

First, on the track work I finished the changes to the mainline in front of Mt. Aiden - now I'm installing the sidings for Brambell's, Walter P's, and Isaac's coal.

[S&S RR]

I also made some progress on the Jacob's Coal build (renaming it Isaac's Coal).  The castings are all mounted for painting and I started cycling them through the paint booth for the primer.








The bolt castings are starting out with a red primer.  I will also have a batch with grey primer for the footing castings. And finally the rest of the castings will get a earth primer coat.

[S&S RR]

And finally, for tonight, I updated the CADRAIL drawing of the layout and hung it in the doorway as you enter the layout.

[S&S RR]

The pictures I just posted of the layout diagram is a good example of why I don't like the downsized pictures that fit on the screen without the bars.  The resolution is completely gone if you want to zoom in to look at a particular area.

[S&S RR]

Wow - the distortion is all being added as the picture is reformatted for the forum.  I can zoom in and get nice crisp lines and letters before I send it to the gallery.  I'll leave the posted pictures as a lesson learned.

[ak-milw]

Wow  That layout is gigantic

[S&S RR]

Wow  That layout is gigantic

There are a many days when I think it is to big to finish.  Thanks for stopping by Andy.

[S&S RR]

[S&S RR]

I took another run at the layout diagram by exporting it with maximum jpeg resolution and large size and it's much more readable.

[S&S RR]

Here are the castings for Jacob's after they have been cycled through the paint booth.

[Zephyrus52246]

Nice track plan.  Do other members of the household know about the "future expansion"? 


Jeff