Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[S&S RR]

John...

I started a thread called Trestle washers to attempt to answer your question.

see ya
Bob

Thanks Bob
Great discussion thread!

[S&S RR]

The washer issue is resolved- I ordered square washers on 2 1/2 inch bolts. I will post pictures of the fixture I'm building for the trestle bents as soon as it is complete.  I'm currently  back in the 6 projects at once mode.  It is just the way it seems to work out.

[ACL1504]

John,

I thought I was the only person who had several projects going at one time. I keep telling myself I won't do it again but then I find I right back where I started.

Tom

[S&S RR]

John,

I thought I was the only person who had several projects going at one time. I keep telling myself I won't do it again but then I find I right back where I started.

Tom

Tom


I think it is part being a model railroader.  In my case it doesn't help that for my working life I was always managing multiple projects. It is just the way it is and I can't change it.

[ACL1504]

I agree, when I have one project going, I feel like I'm not getting anything done.

Tom

[ak-milw]

I have the same problem, must be the way modeling is.

[S&S RR]

Since we were discussing having multiple projects going at one time I took pictures of the projects I'm working on today. I have two tasks going on the stone roundhouse build, the tar paper roof and the doors. After a few attempts at scratch building a door and then casting a mold I have decided that I'm going to scratch build all of the door out of wood. Today I had part of the first door clamped up for the glue to dry.  This is design 3 - sound familiar.





I'm also working on laying the track in the Sellios area - as soon as I get this area wired up and working with DC I'm going to make the switch to DCC.
 






And the final project is the trees which I posted on earlier in the week.

[bparrish]

John..........

Having multiple projects is how I function best.............  Get an idea that might work and try it out........ when I get stuck I go on to another idea or back on something else in the works...... given long enough.... a solution comes along and I'm back at it.........

I think we all are a bit schizo when it comes to some of this..........

But............... I'm not schizo.................... and neither am I

see ya
Bob

[S&S RR]

Bob, Tom, Andy

I think we all tend to work on multiple projects, it keeps things interesting and you have something to do while the glue and or paint dries. The only drawback seems to be that you don't see as much day to day progress. One of the nice things about keep a build thread going is that you can look back a month and see that you are really making progress. Now, speaking of progress is time to go lay some track.

[jrmueller]

I have five structure projects going on now plus redesigning my layout to accommodate past, present and future structure.  Sitting on the porch with my after walk coffee watching the hummingbirds on the feeder.  Jim

[S&S RR]

I have five structure projects going on now plus redesigning my layout to accommodate past, present and future structure.  Sitting on the porch with my after walk coffee watching the hummingbirds on the feeder.  Jim

Hi Jim

Sounds like a model railroader to me - the sitting on the porch part is scenery research so you have six project going. I have never seen anyone model a hummingbird
Thanks for stopping by the thread.

[S&S RR]

I have been doing some research for my trestle build project. One of my best resources is my collection of Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette Magazines. Thank you Bob Brown for providing us with such a great resource over the years. Here are a few pictures of trestles from the Gazette.

[S&S RR]

Today after a few hours of reading I finally decided on a trestle design for the Superior & Seattle Railroad. I found a magazine article in my files that answered all of my remaining questions. If you are at the point in your layout where you need to build some trestles I highly recommend you read this article.  It is from the May 2006 Railroad Model Craftsman and was written by David G. Labert and titled "Tips on modeling wood trestles: How to avoid common engineering mistakes".   The article explains the details so if your interested I would point you there. The following picture shows the design that I will be using for the bents.

[bparrish]

John.......

Quite an undertaking.......... There are very few vertical bent timbers that cross through the horizontal ties.  You got a lot of parts ahead of you.........

It will be.......... however......... very cool.

Thanx
Bob

[S&S RR]

John.......

Quite an undertaking.......... There are very few vertical bent timbers that cross through the horizontal ties.  You got a lot of parts ahead of you.........

It will be.......... however......... very cool.

Thanx
Bob

Bob

The big issue with many model trestle designs is that they will use 110 foot 12x12 vertical timbers. The railroads didn't have access to them even in the Northwest. About 30 feet was the maximum they could get and could handle in any quantity. The maximum height for the seven trestles I plan to build is 110 feet.  With this design the top sections will all be the same and the bottom section will very in height to match the terrain.

I will cut and stain the wood pieces in batches. Then glue them together with the gluing fixture I'm making. The gluing of the bents will be a fill in job for many, many months.  When I get enough bents to build one of the trestles we will see how they look.