Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[Mark Dalrymple]

Beautiful job on the trestle, John!

I've enjoyed watching this one progress, and like the way you 'interrupted' its progress with other jobs to keep the motivation high. 

We've made it back to NZ fine (32 hours travel home - and Anzac day was non existent for us this year, as that was when we crossed the international date line).  Both Michelle and I are finding ourselves falling asleep at 8pm in the evenings!  Hopefully I'll find some energy for modelling this weekend!  Besides - I have all those new Expo purchases to build!  Thoughts of a garage extension are amplified at the moment, as realisation dawns that I simply do not have enough room on my layout to place them all!

Cheers, Mark.

[S&S RR]

Beautiful job on the trestle, John!

I've enjoyed watching this one progress, and like the way you 'interrupted' its progress with other jobs to keep the motivation high. 

We've made it back to NZ fine (32 hours travel home - and Anzac day was non existent for us this year, as that was when we crossed the international date line).  Both Michelle and I are finding ourselves falling asleep at 8pm in the evenings!  Hopefully I'll find some energy for modelling this weekend!  Besides - I have all those new Expo purchases to build!  Thoughts of a garage extension are amplified at the moment, as realisation dawns that I simply do not have enough room on my layout to place them all!

Cheers, Mark.

Mark


Thanks for the kind words and it's great to hear you made it back safe.  I understand the sleep issues from my working days and traveling overseas.  It would take me 3 weeks to recover from a trip to Asia. As to the thoughts of expansion of your layout space, it happens to every model railroader that I have ever met.  Howard Zane expanded his house three times so he could get more basement space for his trains. I have my eye on another section of our basement but have promised to finish the layout in the area I have before expanding.

[tom.boyd.125]

 Great job on the trestle as I followed along on your build .   It looks fantastic !
Tom

[S&S RR]

Great job on the trestle as I followed along on your build .   It looks fantastic !
Tom

Tom


Thanks for the kind words and for following the thread. I will be spending the summer months working on the track work for the upper levels and building structures.

[S&S RR]

Another progress photograph, added more talus and trees. It is time to get out the static grass machine.

[GPdemayo]

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.

Yes, definitely a compliment.....isn't it a given that we're all a little wacko to be doing what we're doing?
 
At least it keeps us off the streets and out of most trouble! 

[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.

Yes, definitely a compliment.....isn't it a given that we're all a little wacko to be doing what we're doing?
 
At least it keeps us off the streets and out of most trouble! 

Greg


Thanks - we are a little wacko as my Grandma use to say. But it keeps use happy and that's what counts.

[ACL1504]

John,

You did a beautiful job on the trestle and the fact you cut your own stripwood is even more amazing. The trestle is in itself a work of art.

However, is it just my imagination or an optical illusion that the top of the trestle doesn't look level in a couple of places?

Tom

[S&S RR]

John,

You did a beautiful job on the trestle and the fact you cut your own stripwood is even more amazing. The trestle is in itself a work of art.

However, is it just my imagination or an optical illusion that the top of the trestle doesn't look level in a couple of places?

Tom

Hi Tom


It is not an optical illusion - the trestle has a grade of 1.6 % and I also raised the outside edge by .030 of an inch. So what you see in the pictures  is the two places where they blend together. I'm going to see if this works the way I expect it to when the track goes down. If not I will take it out with Tom's famous sanding block. 

[ACL1504]

Whew, I was concerned but it appears I missed the 1.6% grade in an earlier post.

Beautiful job.

Tom

[GPdemayo]

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.

Yes, definitely a compliment.....isn't it a given that we're all a little wacko to be doing what we're doing?
 
At least it keeps us off the streets and out of most trouble! 

Greg


Thanks - we are a little wacko as my Grandma use to say. But it keeps use happy and that's what counts.

Right...................

[S&S RR]

Whew, I was concerned but it appears I missed the 1.6% grade in an earlier post.

Beautiful job.

Tom

Yes - I have been seeing it in the pictures for weeks - it is not as noticeable when you look at it with the naked eye. I will be getting some track on there in the next few weeks and that will be the true test. 

[Twist67]

Hi,

Fantastic work.

Cheers,Chris

[S&S RR]

Hi,

Fantastic work.

Cheers,Chris

Thanks Chris

[S&S RR]

Yesterday, Wayne Olson developed a great technique for moving track that had been glued down and ballasted.  He wet it down which released the white glue and the shop vac did the rest. It worked great!