Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[S&S RR]

I spent my train time today working on the Stone Roundhouse project.  I have been putting in a little time working on the doors in the past few weeks - but this is the first time I devoted a 5 hour block of time getting back to the construction in about 6 months.  I completed the roof on the lower portion of the roundhouse and painted it the initial coat of grimy black. Then I got started on the upper roof - got about half of the construction paper glued down today.  In addition to the work on the roof I glued more of the moldings to the doors for the roundhouse.  A couple more hours and I should have the doors ready for painting.



Lower roof before painting - notice the how 6 months of fluorescent lights changed the color of the paper I'm using for the tar paper roof.



Lower roof after the first coat of grimy black paint.



Getting started on the upper roof.

[S&S RR]

Today the tar paper roof was completed on the Roundhouse. Also, completed the construction of the doors - they are now ready for fitting and final sanding.

[gnatshop]

Looks like you've got a good start on the sandin' dust for the old-time scenery methods!!
OOPS! Told my age, didn' I? 

[bparrish]

John........

I hadn't paid attention to the door openings...... Round !

The doors are great...

thanx
Bob

[S&S RR]

Looks like you've got a good start on the sandin' dust for the old-time scenery methods!!
OOPS! Told my age, didn' I? 

I have three jars of saw dust from different grits of sandpaper that I used for the saw mill.  I know it will be used again. I guess that makes me old too. 

[S&S RR]

John........

I hadn't paid attention to the door openings...... Round !

The doors are great...

thanx
Bob

Thanks Bob

I have many hours in them.  The nice thing about pictures is they point out where you still have work to do.

[GPdemayo]

Great build John.....that is a great structure and could be the focal point of a very impressive scene.....can't wait to see what you're going to do with it. 

[bparrish]

John......

You're not going to park a bunch of dismals in there are you ? ? ? ?

see ya
Bob

[GPdemayo]

John......

You're not going to park a bunch of dismals in there are you ? ? ? ?

see ya
Bob

Hey Bob.....what's a dismal?

[bparrish]

John...........

As in Diesel  ! ! ! !

You're not going to pack that great round house full of those fuel smelling scrap yard candidates   ? ? ? ?  Are you ? ? ?

see ya
Bob

[S&S RR]

Great build John.....that is a great structure and could be the focal point of a very impressive scene.....can't wait to see what you're going to do with it. 

Greg 

Thanks,  I'm looking forward to putting it in place on the layout.

[S&S RR]

John...........

As in Diesel  ! ! ! !

You're not going to pack that great round house full of those fuel smelling scrap yard candidates   ? ? ? ?  Are you ? ? ?

see ya
Bob

Bob

The Superior & Seattle is in the process of acquiring a full complement of steam locomotives.  I believe it will be very rare for a diesel to find it's way into the roundhouse.

[GPdemayo]

John.....check out the MTH steamers. I have about a dozen and they run really great, are well detailed and with the cast boilers, they pull well. The web adddress for their 2014 catalogue is below.


http://www.mthtrains.com/sites/default/files/catalog_files/2014_ho_v_1/index.html

[bparrish]

Greg...

I wen't out to the link you put up........... Great steamers......... I wonder why a perfectly good company like that would waste all that energy on designing and marketing dismals.

Oh well............ no accounting for some things.

John...

Glad to hear that an errant Diesel would have to live out in the rain.

see ya
Bob

[deemery]

John...........

As in Diesel  ! ! ! !

You're not going to pack that great round house full of those fuel smelling scrap yard candidates   ? ? ? ?  Are you ? ? ?

see ya
Bob

Bob

The Superior & Seattle is in the process of acquiring a full complement of steam locomotives.  I believe it will be very rare for a diesel to find it's way into the roundhouse.

That's a most enlightened attitude on the part of the S&S railroad management!


(Now if only we could produce some sort of "climate change" argument in support of steamers...)



dave