Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[S&S RR]

I spent most of my work time today on the C. C. Crow Challenge Build.  Tomorrow, is going to be concentrate on track work day.  I need to stay on schedule to get the trains running by Christmas. It's going to be close.

[S&S RR]

I'm getting into the final steps on the C. C. Crow Church build and thought I would post a progress picture on my layout build thread.  See the kit build threads if you want to see the detail steps to this build.





Starting to add the windows.  Once their in it will be time for the roof and the final touches.

[S&S RR]

I also laid out all of the track work for the mountain top scene.  I have all the switches and sidings figured out and tomorrow I will start installing it.

[Powersteamguy1790]

Nice work on the church build and new track work on the layout John. 

Stay cool and run steam........

[S&S RR]

Nice work on the church build and new track work on the layout John. 

Stay cool and run steam........

Bob


Thanks for stopping by the thread and for the kind words. I'm working through a period on the layout build where there is a lot of work going on but not much to take pictures of - all required to get the trains running.

[S&S RR]

Track work in the mountains is hard work - even on a model railroad. I spent most of the day cutting out benchwork to make way for the switch machines. Slow progress.

[ACL1504]

Track work in the mountains is hard work - even on a model railroad. I spent most of the day cutting out benchwork to make way for the switch machines. Slow progress.

John,

No wonder, those are some serious mountains! I guess you have some guys working the jack hammers as well.


Tom

[S&S RR]

Track work in the mountains is hard work - even on a model railroad. I spent most of the day cutting out benchwork to make way for the switch machines. Slow progress.

John,

No wonder, those are some serious mountains! I guess you have some guys working the jack hammers as well.  





Tom

Tom


Yeah, I sure do.  It's hard to find guys that can work with an HO scale jack hammer.

[S&S RR]

Tonight a quick update on the status of the Superior & Seattle Railroad.  I have been working hard to finish my C. C. Crow build for the Challenge - with any luck I will finish it to the point where I can put it on the shelf until the scenery is finished in the area where I will place it. Many of the details will wait until I make a final decision on placement.


My Jacob's coal build has been at a stand still and I will be getting back to it next week.


I have been cutting strip wood for the two trestle builds and should get the wood into the A&I bath later this week.


I'm also working on laying track for the lumber mill mountain scene and will be concentrating the biggest share of my time to it for the next few months. I have quite a bit of work to do inside the mountain to finish the connecting loops for continuous train operations.


I also worked on my casting cleanup from the Trains of Texas  casting project from a few weeks ago. I need to clean up the master casting so I can send a package back to Tommy.  Getting the latex out of the details of the casting from the bad cast problem I had with the final mold material (see description a few pages back) is proving to be very labor intensive.  Here is a picture of the casting and the progress I have made cleaning it.  I'm using a probe to clean the mold material out of the features of the bricks. The blue in the cracks still needs to be removed. I don't thick I can get the blue staining of the casting without damaging it.  I want to make sure it can be used to make new molds if they are required in the future. 

[S&S RR]

I have finished the C.C. Crow Stone Church build.  Mine is called Saint Elenor's Church after Wayne Olson's wife Elenor who earned her Sainthood putting up with Wayne all these years.  Here are a few pictures,  the finishing touches and details will be added when it goes on the layout.

[cuse]

Fantastic! Nicely done John.


John

[jimmillho]

Great looking church John.

Jim

[ak-milw]

Great job on the church John, looks perfect.

[Powersteamguy1790]

The church building looks fantastic John. Nice job ;

Stay cool and run steam.......

[S&S RR]

Fantastic! Nicely done John.


John

Thanks John  - I want to wait until I have it in place and put the final dirt in place before I finish coloring the steps.