Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[Janbouli]

looks like the ultimate mancave , all it needs is a crate of Heineken in the middle.

[S&S RR]

looks like the ultimate mancave , all it needs is a crate of Heineken in the middle.

Jan


That sounds like a great plan for the golden spike celebration. My kids and now my Grand Kids have had a great time crawling through all the tunnels under the layout.

[S&S RR]

Well I hit a major milestone today. Finished the Brambell's build - at least the workbench part of it - the rest of the touchup etc. will be done as part of the planting process on the layout. I took a few pictures on the workbench with a sky blue background and then again after I put it on the self for safe keeping until I get the scenery, and track work completed in the area where it will go on the layout.

[S&S RR]

After review all the pictures I liked the ones from the self better so most of the shots I will post are from there.


Here is the left side of the build.








We have a truck under repair in the front by the main office.

[S&S RR]

This is the center and main yard from a few different angles.

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The pit area.

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The main warehouse and the back yard - the trucks use the trestle to get to this back area.











In the back is the rail siding and the loading dock for the rail spur.

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On the far right is another storage shed.  Here are a couple detail pictures.











I need to fix the concrete pilers under this shed - the glue seeped up castings when I glued it down.  So starts the list for planting fixes.

[ak-milw]

Well after reviewing all the pictures I can't seem to find anything to complain about. Excellent job, very nice details.

[S&S RR]

Well after reviewing all the pictures I can't seem to find anything to complain about. Excellent job, very nice details.

Andy


Thanks - I keep adding things to the list but that's part of the process.  I need to get it in the home position and then do another once over before I call it complete.

[S&S RR]

So late this afternoon I did something that probably hasn't been done for 5 years.  I found the top of my workbench surfaces.  I told myself that it was going to happen before I started another build.  A few months ago someone started a thread posting pictures of their work bench.  I took some pictures of mine but never posted them.  So since I had thinks cleaned up I took some pictures.  I keep making improvements to this work area but I'm getting to the point where I'm really happy with it.  So for what it's worth this is where I hang out when I'm building structures in the layout room.


I have three basic work surfaces.  In this picture you can see the edge of the layout and the throttle that I can reach from the work bench.  My NCE system is all radio controlled but I don't leave the batteries in the cabs when I'm just testing.  I learned that one the hard way when a couple batteries leaked into a cab.


Paper towel is always ready just in case I spill. I seem to go through lots of paper towels.

[S&S RR]

Moving to the right is the workstation where I do all my casting painting and weathering. I also have a glass surface for building subassemblies.


Above this station is the shelves that I use to hold the builds waiting to go on the layout plus lots of supplies.

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Turning to the right we have my strip wood storage.  And another shelf for stuff.  Another quarter turn gets us to the main work surface where I usually have the baseboard for whatever I'm building. I have a piece of sheet metal that is about 3 feet square which I use for laying out big structures with magnets. I also have cutting pads for each of the three surfaces which come out from under the bench when needed.

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Another quarter turn and we have another work surface for subassemblies and painting.  The paints in the background are my Christmas present from my wife.  I think she likes having me down in my layout room out of her hair. I'm painting the front of the shelf with each color as I use them. Above each of these work surface is either shelves or cabinets for storage of supplies.

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And finally another quarter turn and we have a small working surface as part of a cabinet. Yes we did go in full circle.  Just to the right of this cabinet is the entry way into my cube.  Yes - I sure like it better than the cube I had for an office in my working days.