Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[vikas chander]

hi john

always great t o look at your rocwork ... the look fantastic and i must visit you one da to pick your brain on how-to's....

are those bragdon molds you are using


cheers

vikas

[GPdemayo]

Hi John. I just caught up on your thread and was amazed at the scope of work you have taken on.

The mountains are awe inspiring and I hope that there won't be a shortage of plaster when I get around to doing that on my layout.


Glad to see that you and Tom have got the passenger car pulling and pushing problem figured out.


Great work and I'll try to keep a closer watch in the future.

Thanks Greg


It is a very big project - just taking it a day at a time.  I am enjoying it .  If you have trouble getting plaster I know where to get it by the 100 lb bag.  I will try to keep this thread up-to-date.

Thanks John.....I'll keep it in mind, but I think Pegi would definitly put me in the home if I came in with a 100 lb bag of plaster! 

[S&S RR]

hi john

always great t o look at your rocwork ... the look fantastic and i must visit you one da to pick your brain on how-to's....

are those bragdon molds you are using


cheers

vikas

Good to hear from you Vikas - yes many of my rock molds were from Bragdon. I also made a number of them myself and bought from other suppliers. Let me know when your travels take you this way.

[S&S RR]

Hi John. I just caught up on your thread and was amazed at the scope of work you have taken on.

The mountains are awe inspiring and I hope that there won't be a shortage of plaster when I get around to doing that on my layout.


Glad to see that you and Tom have got the passenger car pulling and pushing problem figured out.


Great work and I'll try to keep a closer watch in the future.

Thanks Greg


It is a very big project - just taking it a day at a time.  I am enjoying it .  If you have trouble getting plaster I know where to get it by the 100 lb bag.  I will try to keep this thread up-to-date.

Thanks John.....I'll keep it in mind, but I think Pegi would definitly put me in the home if I came in with a 100 lb bag of plaster! 

Have Pegi talk to  Amy when the time comes maybe we can all end up in the same home. 

[S&S RR]

Things have come to a stand still on the S&S - two days without power.    Working with a flashlight does not cut it.

[S&S RR]

Thanks to the power outage I switched to CAD version 1.0 for the layout of the town of Sellios.  I think I will frame it and put it on the wall next to the CAD layout drawing.  Actually, it is kind of nice to use the old drafting tools again.

[ak-milw]

Yep , you just can't beat drawing it out with a pencil!

[S&S RR]

Yep , you just can't beat drawing it out with a pencil!

Andy

You sure have that right!  I spent the day today trying different scenarios for the layout of my town of Sellios. I'm going to sleep on it tonight and if I still like it in the morning I'm going to start the implementation process. Wayne Olson spent the day with me today and it really helped to talk through the different options. We needed Frank's aka Erieman's sketching skills but we got through the process by making mockups out of scrap wood.

[S&S RR]

Today I started laying out the placement of the structures.  The structures with elevation change are going in first and the starting point was placement of Bob VanGelder's Salyes Mill kit.  Those of you that have built this one will recognize the base board and foam buildup. I will be building up the base boards for these first few structures with elevation change, to help with the placement of the bench work for the track.  Now that this is in place I will layout the river and then the track placement. It will be a while before I get to the actual builds. Track work and trains running first.

[ak-milw]

It's just the opposite for me, trains run last.

[EricQuebec]

It's just the opposite for me, trains run last.

Ditto. ... Anyway, I don't have any track yet....

[S&S RR]

Andy and Eric

Interesting that you do the builds first and then put in the track work. I have found that I enjoy operations now that I have the time to get to other layouts in the area. Since I retired, I have networked with a number of the local model railroaders and I'm looking forward to the time when we can run trains on my layout.  It is interesting how my track plan has changed as a result of the operations experience.  My original track plan was a way of running trains through the structure displays. Now, I think it will be very interesting for operations and still display the structures the way I originally planned. It will be a while before operations is possible on the S&S, but steady progress is being made now. Thanks for following the thread.

[jlgrove]

....everytime I see your layout, I am more amazed than last time about your rockwork...beautiful!!

[ak-milw]

John, It's not that I put the track in afterwards, The track goes in first then the buildings and scenery. It is just I am working a section at a time so the track is always a dead end, till the next section.

[S&S RR]

....everytime I see your layout, I am more amazed than last time about your rockwork...beautiful!!

Jeff thanks for the kind words. I'm looking forward to building the structures in front of the rock work which I hope will make it look even better.
As you know, I have plans for a few of your kits on the layout including the 999,999 out of 1,000,000 Round Barn. The kit that Jimmy D said would never sell.  I know where it's going to go but it will be a few years before I get to that area on the layout.  The plan is to build the kit and sell the box on ebay.  I expect it will go for enough to pay for my next layout expansion.