Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[S&S RR]

Today GN 1701 was photographed making track testing runs on the Superior & Seattle RR. The locomotive ran a string of 6 heavy passenger cars both forward and backward through the lower level main without incident. Further tests are to be conducted tomorrow before certifying the lower main as ready for ballasting and moving on with construction of the upper level main line. A 2-6-6-2 steam locomotive and a GN GP-7 number 703 with a string of box cars was also observed running the lower main.








More photographs of the testing tomorrow.

[bparrish]

Very cool. 

Thanx
Bob

[GPdemayo]

Neat.....that's a lot of rock!

[cuse]

Wow. Rock and now rollin' too!


Awesome effect!


John

[S&S RR]

Very cool. 

Thanx
Bob

Thanks for stopping by Bob. Having trains running is very cool.

[S&S RR]

Neat.....that's a lot of rock!

Looks like a lot of rock right now - but when I get it detailed and start adding the trees and scenery it will fade into the background. Thanks for stopping buy Greg.

[S&S RR]

Wow. Rock and now rollin' too!


Awesome effect!


John

Yes John - we are rocking and rolling.  I have a box car setup that is real loose so it really rocks and rolls anywhere the track isn't perfect. It is starting to get there.  Thanks for stopping by.

[deemery]

Wow. Rock and now rollin' too!


Awesome effect!


John

Yes John - we are rocking and rolling.  I have a box car setup that is real loose so it really rocks and rolls anywhere the track isn't perfect. It is starting to get there.  Thanks for stopping by.

Runs in my mind John Allen rigged a boxcar with a ball inside that would light up if it were switched roughly.  Nowadays, with micro gyros, etc, you could do a lot more sophisticated 'hard running detector' car.


dave

[gnatshop]

All them rock walls look like where Darnell Ledbetter go hit in the head with a fallin' rock.
He ain't been right since!!! 

But the rest of the famly don't care - they're just glad to see the trains rollin' by again so
they can pump their arms and hear the Wooo-Hooo of the whistles or horns when the engineer
don't ignore them!!
Some of the newer engineers think that they're makin' obscene gestures!! 

[jlgrove]

..very impressive!!

[S&S RR]

Wow. Rock and now rollin' too!


Awesome effect!


John

Yes John - we are rocking and rolling.  I have a box car setup that is real loose so it really rocks and rolls anywhere the track isn't perfect. It is starting to get there.  Thanks for stopping by.

Runs in my mind John Allen rigged a boxcar with a ball inside that would light up if it were switched roughly.  Nowadays, with micro gyros, etc, you could do a lot more sophisticated 'hard running detector' car.


dave

I remember reading about John Allen's car with ball bearings and a light system.  Today an accelerometer would provide all the feedback required to know how well someone was running a train. Great project idea! I think it will be a few years before I get to that one.

I do plan on buying a small camera system that Erieman showed me when I was out in Arizona this past winter.  Any rough track work would show up in the pictures. For now my box car with the loose truck screws is all the feedback on need to get the track operational.

Thanks for stopping by Dave - and for getting the project ideas generator going.

[S&S RR]

All them rock walls look like where Darnell Ledbetter go hit in the head with a fallin' rock.
He ain't been right since!!! 

But the rest of the famly don't care - they're just glad to see the trains rollin' by again so
they can pump their arms and hear the Wooo-Hooo of the whistles or horns when the engineer
don't ignore them!!
Some of the newer engineers think that they're makin' obscene gestures!! 

I don't remember if I mentioned the cave the blasting crew found - it has one of the biggest moonshine distilling operations we have ever seen all setup for the track laying crew. It will be one of the mini scenes for the visitors that really take a look at the details. One of the projects to be completed at a later date.  If the Ledbetter's have any prototype pictures they would like to share it would be a real big help when I get to it.

Thanks for stopping by Dave.

[S&S RR]

..very impressive!!

Thanks Jeff.

It will look a lot better when it's detailed and we have some structures to talk about.

Thanks for stopping by.

[S&S RR]

Here are a couple more pictures of the track testing operations. If you look closely you will spot some track going in on the upper levels of the mainline.



UP 3671 a 2-6-6-2 pulling 6 passenger cars.



GN 703 is held up on the main waiting for UP 3671 to back into a siding.

[ACL1504]

John,

Great to see trains running on the S&S RR. I know I've said it before but the color on the rockwork is very natural looking. Fantastic job on all the rockwork!

Tom