Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[S&S RR]

This third set of progress pictures is the area we call Wayne's Hole.  Wayne made the comment when we were putting in the plaster mountains that it was a shame to block the view on the far wall with a mountain - but we need to add the large mountain in this area to hide a reinforcement pole in the basement.  So we came up with a strategic tunnel placement that allowed a few through the mountain at eye level.  Here is a series of three pictures that show how mountains look so far a viewed through the tunnel.







In this final shot you are looking through the tunnel with the camera focused on the mountain 20 feet away.

[jrmueller]

Neat

[S&S RR]

Neat

Thanks Jim and thanks for stopping by the thread.

[DACS]

John, they say that patience is a virtue.  Your layout is simply amazing.  All that mountainous terrain, is a lot of patience on display.

I am truely impressed sir.  I really love the roundhouse!

Dave HWCRR
Seattle

[S&S RR]

John, they say that patience is a virtue.  Your layout is simply amazing.  All that mountainous terrain, is a lot of patience on display.

I am truely impressed sir.  I really love the roundhouse!

Dave HWCRR
Seattle

Dave

Thanks for the kind words.  I'm not sure my wife would agree about the patience part - maybe I used them all up on those plaster mountains. Thanks for following the thread.

[bparrish]

John...

This is just getting cooler by the minute.

thanx
Bob

[clevermod01]

Ive always loved great rock work and i love this. Reminds me of the old "Eagles nest" on the G&D

[S&S RR]

John...

This is just getting cooler by the minute.

thanx
Bob

Thanks Bob - I'm having fun with it.

[S&S RR]

Ive always loved great rock work and i love this. Reminds me of the old "Eagles nest" on the G&D

Thanks Thom
There is a lot of John Allen  influence in the layout design.  There will be an Eagles nest sometime in the future.

[ACL1504]

John,

Speaking of the G&D, how about posting the photos you have of Allen's layout?

Tom

[S&S RR]

John,

Speaking of the G&D, how about posting the photos you have of Allen's layout?

Tom

Tom

I will post the John Allen pictures here if the website doesn't come back up.  At one time they were trying to sell DVD's to help pay for the website. I collected all the pictures I have  off the internet so I guess I would be okay with copyright laws posting them here.  There should be a place where his original work can be seen.  I'm going to give it a couple weeks and see if I can find out what happened to the website.

[S&S RR]

John,

Speaking of the G&D, how about posting the photos you have of Allen's layout?

Tom

Tom

I will post the John Allen pictures here if the website doesn't come back up.  At one time they were trying to sell DVD's to help pay for the website. I collected all the pictures I have  off the internet so I guess I would be okay with copyright laws posting them here.  There should be a place where his original work can be seen.  I'm going to give it a couple weeks and see if I can find out what happened to the website.

Tom a followup to this question.  I just read on the John Allen yahoo group that the website with the pictures is having issues but they are working on it. 

[S&S RR]

This weekend I decided to tackle the projects of painting the lower bench work - Forest Green, and installing flooring in the train room.  As of tonight, the painting is complete and I got a good start on the flooring.  The way I feel right now from crawling on the floor all day - getting out of bed in the morning is going to be a challenge.  I will post pictures when I get the flooring complete.

[ACL1504]

This weekend I decided to tackle the projects of painting the lower bench work - Forest Green, and installing flooring in the train room.  As of tonight, the painting is complete and I got a good start on the flooring.  The way I feel right now from crawling on the floor all day - getting out of bed in the morning is going to be a challenge.  I will post pictures when I get the flooring complete.

John,

I was thinking of asking my Congressman sponsor and pass a bill prohibiting us old geezers from crawling on the floor. But then I remembered I can't even count on him to be honest much less pass a Bill in Congress.

Tom

[BandOGuy]

This weekend I decided to tackle the projects of painting the lower bench work - Forest Green, and installing flooring in the train room.  As of tonight, the painting is complete and I got a good start on the flooring.  The way I feel right now from crawling on the floor all day - getting out of bed in the morning is going to be a challenge.  I will post pictures when I get the flooring complete.

John,
I was thinking of asking my Congressman sponsor and pass a bill prohibiting us old geezers from crawling on the floor. But then I remembered I can't even count on him to be honest much less pass a Bill in Congress.
Tom

Bet your Congressman would crawl on the floor for a bill: the larger the bill, the faster he'd scurry.