Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[GPdemayo]

That is one good looking build!

[S&S RR]

John, Bob, Tom and Greg

Thanks for the kind words.  This structure has been a long build. It is going to be great to get it on the layout. Today I cut the hole for the turntable. I have some scenery work to do behind the roundhouse site and then sometime next week I should be able to take a few photographs with it in place on the layout.

Bob the diesels get parked outside!

Like most model railroaders I'm already designing my next build which will be a companion building to the Roundhouse called the S&S Locomotive Works - with a fully detailed machine shop.  This will be a scratch build before I dive in to that stack of kits that I have to build. Right now I plan on going in to a three or four week period of working on the track work again and see if I can get one of the upper levels operational.

[Janbouli]

Super John , the colors , the weathering , awesome building.

[S&S RR]

Super John , the colors , the weathering , awesome building.

Thanks - I hope it looks good on the layout.

[S&S RR]

Update:  Today I got the hole cut for the round table and installed it, added the ballast to the mainline that runs behind the Roundhouse, and decided to redo the trees behind the roundhouse.  The trees I made in this area  had way to much flock on them and don't look as good as the trees I'm making now, so it's more trees before we call in the crane to move the roundhouse to the layout.

[gnatshop]

Update:  Today I got the hole cut for the round table and installed it, added the ballast to the mainline that runs behind the Roundhouse, and decided to redo the trees behind the roundhouse.  The trees I made in this area  had way to much flock on them and don't look as good as the trees I'm making now, so it's more trees before we call in the crane to move the roundhouse to the layout.

Two Thoughts:
1.) The original Creator didn't worry that much about his flocking trees - he just let 'em grow
     however they wanted!
2.) I hope that you're not using DeBlasi Crane Services to move the roundhouse!
     I saw that video lately about using cheap cables to move an engine!!

[S&S RR]

Update:  Today I got the hole cut for the round table and installed it, added the ballast to the mainline that runs behind the Roundhouse, and decided to redo the trees behind the roundhouse.  The trees I made in this area  had way to much flock on them and don't look as good as the trees I'm making now, so it's more trees before we call in the crane to move the roundhouse to the layout.

Two Thoughts:
1.) The original Creator didn't worry that much about his flocking trees - he just let 'em grow
     however they wanted!
2.) I hope that you're not using DeBlasi Crane Services to move the roundhouse!
     I saw that video lately about using cheap cables to move an engine!!

You make a good point on number 1.


Number 2 will not be a problem - my crane service has 10 fingers and a sore back.

[GPdemayo]

Don't even talk about Number 1 and Number 2 with that nice new floor! 

[DACS]

This is a beautiful example of craftsmanship on display.  That's all I can find to describe your roundhouse.

Dave  HWCRR
Seattle

[S&S RR]

Don't even talk about Number 1 and Number 2 with that nice new floor! 

The workbench that the Roundhouse is setting on has rubber wheels - all is well in S&S Land.

[S&S RR]

This is a beautiful example of craftsmanship on display.  That's all I can find to describe your roundhouse.

Dave  HWCRR
Seattle

Thanks Dave.

[GPdemayo]

Don't even talk about Number 1 and Number 2 with that nice new floor! 

The workbench that the Roundhouse is setting on has rubber wheels - all is well in S&S Land.

Thank goodness.....

[S&S RR]

The S&S Stone Roundhouse as left the workbench!

[S&S RR]

The moving process:













IT FITS!

[deemery]

2 geometry questions:
  1.  What size turntable are you planning?
  2.  What's the distance from the center of the turntable to the roundhouse doors?


(Getting roundhouse/turntable geometry right can be a little tricky, particularly making sure that each door is equidistant from the turntable center.)


dave