Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[S&S RR]

Today, I went through another box of suitcase connectors - these were the high ones - reaching up inside the mountains.  I see some sore arms in the morning.    I also glued on the rest of the cross bracing on the second HOn3 trestle. Next step is the nut & bolt castings - a great project for sore arms.

[PRR Modeler]

Excellent modeling John. I look forward to seeing the progress on the bridge.  I buy my connectors at ACE hardware. They have 3 different sizes. It sounds like you use a whole lot more than I do, but maybe ACE will work in a clutch.

[S&S RR]

Excellent modeling John. I look forward to seeing the progress on the bridge.  I buy my connectors at ACE hardware. They have 3 different sizes. It sounds like you use a whole lot more than I do, but maybe ACE will work in a clutch.

Curt


Thanks for stopping by my thread and for the kind words.  I have bought the connectors at my local ACE but the price
break on buying in bulk is to good to pass up.

[S&S RR]

Here is a picture of the second HOn3 trestle minus the clamps.  This picture will serve as the before nut and bolt castings shot. I hope to add the castings sometime this weekend and will post a picture of the trestle completed on the workbench before it moved for installation on the layout.

[Powersteamguy1790]

Nice work on that trestle John.


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

[S&S RR]

Nice work on that trestle John.


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

Thanks Bob

[S&S RR]

It was a big day on the S&S RR today - I ran a locomotive over the Mt. Aiden trestle under power for the first time.  I'm starting to do some testing of the wiring and track work on the upper levels of the layout. The upper levels of the layout will be coming on line one block at a time.  I also went through another box of suitcase connectors - that makes 400 this week.

[Zephyrus52246]

Good to hear your making progress and running trains.  I'll bet your hands are sore from crimping all those connectors.   


Jeff

[S&S RR]

Good to hear your making progress and running trains.  I'll bet your hands are sore from crimping all those connectors.   


Jeff

Jeff


Thanks for stopping by.  Yes - hands and just about every other part of my anatomy are sore from all the crawling around.  I have a creeper that I use to move around under the layout (see page 1 of this thread) - and I have put some miles on it the last few weeks.  Reaching up over your head all day uses muscles that don't normal get stretched that way. I'm looking forward to the golden spike ceremony. I have a ways to go but it's within sight. I will be back building structures soon.

[PRR Modeler]

Awesome! I look forward to seeing picturesof the trestle in place. My back and arms hurt just thinking about doing 400 connectors in one week

[S&S RR]

Awesome! I look forward to seeing picturesof the trestle in place. My back and arms hurt just thinking about doing 400 connectors in one week

Curt


Thanks for the kind words.  I should be installing the two trestles in the next couple of weeks.  I completed the HOn3 track up to the trestle on Saturday. 
I want to get all the wiring completed up to this point and then move on around the layout. 

[S&S RR]

Today, after 10 hours of wiring (as of today I'm 71% complete), my back needed a bench job so I started adding the nut and bolt castings to the HOn3 trestle that's on my workbench.

[cuse]

Another beautiful trestle !


John

[PRR Modeler]

I concur with John, what a beautiful job. The bolts add another level of realism.

[S&S RR]

Another beautiful trestle !


John

Thanks John - this is the last trestle needed to complete the track work for the current (before another expansion) layout.