Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[S&S RR]

Eric, Paul, Jim, John, and Chris


Thanks for the kind words and for stopping by the thread.  I will post some completion pictures in a few days after I get the final touches done.

[deemery]

If you happen to have some Gandy Dancer figures, doing some photos of 'rail being laid on the new trestle' could be fun!


dave

[S&S RR]

Today,  I finished all the cross bracing and added the rest of the bolt castings to the trestle.

[S&S RR]

Since this is a build thread, I thought I would add a few pictures of the process I'm going through to complete this scene.  First the top of the trestle needed to be prepared for the track so I used Tom's sanding block method to make sure it was just right. The shop vac got a workout after this step.

[S&S RR]

I also got out the A&I and touched up all of the cut ends and gave the foundations another shot.  Tomorrow I plan on getting out the chalks for the final weathering.

[S&S RR]

Next - the final layer of sand was added before I add the ballast. Before I flood the benchwork with sand and glue I plug all the holes from the wiring and joints with clay. The paint on the ties and rails was also touched up with rail brown.  The final weathering of the track will come after the ballast.  The land forms are also covered with sand to help hold the scenery materials.  After it was just right I soaked everything down with wet water and flooded it with glue at 4:1.  Next step will be the ballast - then the scenery materials.

[S&S RR]

I took a few in process pictures today of the scenery - I'm starting to add some of the talus materials that I collected out in Arizona.  I like to use my camera as a modeling tool to see if the color and texture look the same in a photograph as they do to me standing in the room.  What do you think?

[martin.ojaste]

John,


Hmmm...is that a missing NBW on the four bent from the left? No in the second row down?


Just kidding! LOL.


An absolutley massive job that look fantastic!


Marty

[cuse]

One of the footers has a small crack in it...I'd start over


John


(truly amazing scenery, btw)

[Zephyrus52246]

Wonderful trestle and scenery, John.


Jeff

[GPdemayo]

Holy Moly..............

[S&S RR]

John,


Hmmm...is that a missing NBW on the four bent from the left? No in the second row down?


Just kidding! LOL.


An absolutley massive job that look fantastic!





Marty

Marty 


Thanks for the help!  Wayne is coming over tomorrow to inspect - if there is one missing he will find it.  Thanks for stopping by the thread and the kind words.

[S&S RR]

One of the footers has a small crack in it...I'd start over


John


(truly amazing scenery, btw)

Oh s**t! That does it - I shouldn't have used those low cost cement guys. Thanks for stopping by John.

[S&S RR]

Wonderful trestle and scenery, John.


Jeff

Thanks Jeff - so to answer your question from the EXPO - how am I going to make sure I have power all the way across this thing? I decided I'm going to wire jumpers across the rail joiners.  Not soldier them because I don't want the track to have no place to go when it expands and contracts. Great question. The plan is to cut a little grove in the wood so the wire have some place to go and will not be visible.

[S&S RR]

Holy Moly..............

Thanks Greg - I will take that as a compliment.  At least you didn't say I was crazy like one of our forum members.