Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[BandOGuy]

A man with that many projects is kinda like a man with 3 or 4 mistresses!
A cat fight over the most attention!!   

David

I'm just not sure how to respond to this one. 

A catty response will leave you feline fine. 

[S&S RR]

One of my favorite parts of the hobby is going out in the field and collecting natural scenery supplies.  I collected talus and rocks that are just the right colors for the layout form this mountain near Jerome, AZ. I think every shade of brown and gray were available right in this one location.  The materials have no shinny. sparkly,  stuff in them that makes them look unnatural under the layout lights. Mother nature had done most of the work to get them ground into the different textures required  for an HO scale layout.  All I had to do was shovel the material into 5 gallon buckets.

[S&S RR]

I'm working on the trees for the Superior portion of the layout (see Morristown and Erie Layout thread).

[S&S RR]

The annual meeting for the Superior & Seattle RR has ended it's time to get back to work on that trestle build. We tried to store up enough warmth to get us to the point where the warm weather finds it's way to Michigan. We had a great trip and I enjoyed working on the Morristown & Erie with Frank.

[gnatshop]

That great spirit of model railroad sharing should pay back in spades - especially those spade-fulls of talus that
you got out there!

Oh, crap - Candy is gonna get me - she told me once that 'especially' wasn't really a word!
What the heck - it fits for what I wanna say!!!

[ACL1504]

The annual meeting for the Superior & Seattle RR has ended it's time to get back to work on that trestle build. We tried to store up enough warmth to get us to the point where the warm weather finds it's way to Michigan. We had a great trip and I enjoyed working on the Morristown & Erie with Frank.

John,

Happy to see you and Wayne made it back to the frozen North. I'll get out to Frank's one of these days.

Tom

[S&S RR]

That great spirit of model railroad sharing should pay back in spades - especially those spade-fulls of talus that
you got out there!

Oh, crap - Candy is gonna get me - she told me once that 'especially' wasn't really a word!
What the heck - it fits for what I wanna say!!!

David


A great part of this hobby is the people you meet.


Especially, is in my dictionary

[S&S RR]

The annual meeting for the Superior & Seattle RR has ended it's time to get back to work on that trestle build. We tried to store up enough warmth to get us to the point where the warm weather finds it's way to Michigan. We had a great trip and I enjoyed working on the Morristown & Erie with Frank.

John,

Happy to see you and Wayne made it back to the frozen North. I'll get out to Frank's one of these days.

Tom

Tom


Wayne is still enjoying the warm weather.  I believe he plans on more fun with Frank.


I  didn't even get out of the state of Arizona before I found snow and below freezing temperatures.

[S&S RR]

The crew is back at work on the Mt. Aiden Trestle.  The crew is adding about two bents a day with all the cross bracing, building the bents for the next day and glueing in the foundations a few days ahead so they can dry.

[S&S RR]

I want to thank Dr. Jeff aka Zephyrus52246 for the tip of using my iPad or iPhone for establishing the grade for the trestle.  I downloaded the application "Clinometer" after reading his build thread "The Empire".  The iPad application works especially well - just the right size.  I was using buildups with levels and steel blocks to make the small digital level I bought from MicroMart years ago work.  Another great application for my phone.


I also rechecked the slope with my laser level to make sure we are on the right trajectory - looks good so far - if
you look closely you can see the red laser dot on the steel target block.

[S&S RR]

The trestle crew discovered today that the CEO wasn't the only one keeping and eye on their progress.

[S&S RR]

Well today I added 30 more pine trees and 50 Aspen trees behind the Mt. Aiden Trestle.  It is amazing how many trees this layout can eat up.  So far we have 10 of the 44 bents for the trestle in place. I decided to plant trees while I waited for the glue to dry on the next 4 bents.

[bparrish]

John..........

This is turning into a pretty cool railroad.

thanx
Bob

[gnatshop]

John..........
This is turning into a pretty cool railroad.
thanx    Bob 

Correction - the Ledbetters said it was awful dern coool!
They wanna go huntin' there - gotta be some mountain goats roamin' around there!
And the Ledbetters love goat meat!!!

[S&S RR]

John..........

This is turning into a pretty cool railroad.

thanx
Bob

Thanks Bob


I'm having fun with it. Thanks for following the thread.