Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[S&S RR]

Church looks great, John - and those steps look perfectly in scale!

Cheers, Mark.

Mark


Thank you for the kind words and the good eye that saw that the steps were out of scale as soon as the castings were out of the box. I'm sure glad I took the time to fix them. I'm on to my Jacob's Coal build tonight. It has been sitting on my workbench for a few weeks while I completed the challenge build.

[S&S RR]

I spent most of my train time this week working on the upper level track work.  Not a lot to take pictures of but work that needs to be done.

[S&S RR]

I returned to working on the layout today after a trip to California for my daughter's wedding. The wedding was wonderful, we all had a great time.  It sure was nice having the whole family together. I managed to get a few prototype photographs while walking on the beach with my Grandsons and during a hike in the Redwoods.

[S&S RR]

I started the design for my S&S RR Locomotive works yesterday.  I'm using a CAD package on my MacBook Pro called TurboCad.  I'm learning how to use the software package at the same time that I'm doing the design work so it's going a little slow. So far, I'm really happy with software and the direction the design is taking.  I will post some screen dump pictures when I get to the point where I have something to show.

[S&S RR]

An interesting landmark was reached on this thread last week - 250,000 views.  I think that's amazing in the couple of years this forum has been up and running.

[tct855]

JS,
         What medium did you use to count the views/votes? I hope not the liberal media, it's been proven to be schmaltzy. ha.  Congratulations to you on your thread sir...     T...

[GPdemayo]

An interesting landmark was reached on this thread last week - 250,000 views.  I think that's amazing in the couple of years this forum has been up and running.

Some would say you need a life.....others would say you're an overachiever. 


Or are you just having a great time? 

[S&S RR]

JS,
         What medium did you use to count the views/votes? I hope not the liberal media, it's been proven to be schmaltzy. ha.  Congratulations to you on your thread sir...     T...

The data (fun fact) is from the view counter that's part of the forum package. I think a view is someone clicking on the thread.

[S&S RR]

An interesting landmark was reached on this thread last week - 250,000 views.  I think that's amazing in the couple of years this forum has been up and running.

Some would say you need a life.....others would say you're an overachiever. 


Or are you just having a great time? 

Truth is,  I'm having a great time. It's amazing how much more satisfying building a play railroad is than working 12 hours a day 6 days a week. As for the thread, it takes about 15 minutes of my time a week to keep it going. I want to finish my layout so I limit my computer time to 30-60 minutes a day.


As to what other say - if you enjoy the thread - thanks for stopping by to see what I'm up too.  If you think I need a life - I hope you find yours.

[GPdemayo]

An interesting landmark was reached on this thread last week - 250,000 views.  I think that's amazing in the couple of years this forum has been up and running.

Some would say you need a life.....others would say you're an overachiever. 


Or are you just having a great time? 

Truth is,  I'm having a great time. It's amazing how much more satisfying building a play railroad is than working 12 hours a day 6 days a week. As for the thread, it takes about 15 minutes of my time a week to keep it going. I want to finish my layout so I limit my computer time to 30-60 minutes a day.


As to what other say - if you enjoy the thread - thanks for stopping by to see what I'm up too.  If you think I need a life - I hope you find yours.

I agree.....I think all of us really do enjoy what we do in the hobby, otherwise it would be too much like work. For me, that means spending an inordinate amount of time marketing and getting the work completed. Which, in a nutshell doesn't leave me much time for modeling and less time for a life.

I am amazed at the dedication and time it is taking you to do your thread of George's layout and know the valuable reference it represents to many out there. 

By keeping trace of all the goings on on this forum, it gives me hope that I will also have time in the future to get back to my projects and add a bit to the great wealth of ideas here.

Keep up the wonderful work you are doing and happy fishing at S&S RR North. 

[S&S RR]

An interesting landmark was reached on this thread last week - 250,000 views.  I think that's amazing in the couple of years this forum has been up and running.

Some would say you need a life.....others would say you're an overachiever. 


Or are you just having a great time? 

Truth is,  I'm having a great time. It's amazing how much more satisfying building a play railroad is than working 12 hours a day 6 days a week. As for the thread, it takes about 15 minutes of my time a week to keep it going. I want to finish my layout so I limit my computer time to 30-60 minutes a day.


As to what other say - if you enjoy the thread - thanks for stopping by to see what I'm up too.  If you think I need a life - I hope you find yours.

I agree.....I think all of us really do enjoy what we do in the hobby, otherwise it would be too much like work. For me, that means spending an inordinate amount of time marketing and getting the work completed. Which, in a nutshell doesn't leave me much time for modeling and less time for a life.

I am amazed at the dedication and time it is taking you to do your thread of George's layout and know the valuable reference it represents to many out there. 

By keeping trace of all the goings on on this forum, it gives me hope that I will also have time in the future to get back to my projects and add a bit to the great wealth of ideas here.

Keep up the wonderful work you are doing and happy fishing at S&S RR North. 

It is amazing how easy it is to many spend hours on this hobby.  Since I retired, I spend as much of my time as possible doing what I enjoy - a 12 hour day just flies by when I'm working on the layout. When I'm fishing I'm designing the next build in my head. And the other nice thing about retirement is you don't care who thinks your crazy.    The work I'm doing posting the pictures of the F&SM is very inspirational and it forces me to really study what George has done.

[S&S RR]

I have spent a few hours doing some design work for an upcoming project which will be called the S&S RR Locomotive Works. The structure will be detailed both inside and out and will be scratch built.  I was doing some work in the CAD package called TurboCad and thought I would try a screen dump so I could show where I was going with this project. 

[S&S RR]

By the time the drawing is resized for the forum it gets hard to read.  I will try doing some zoom in pictures when I get more of the details drawn.

[S&S RR]

I have returned from my fishing/hunting trip with lots of new design ideas - it's time to get back at working on the railroad.

[ak-milw]

we have been waiting!