Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[S&S RR]

Also started laying out the gluing fixture for the trestle bents.

[S&S RR]

I made the final cuts on the structure baseboards so the track could be installed and the baseboards could be removed to my workbench. In this first picture you can see the exposed plywood bench work from my old layout. It now supports the new layout in this area. You can see the hole from a previous duck under (note I only recommend them for modelers under 30), the new layout design removed all duck unders.


Each of the baseboards now becomes a piece of real estate for the town of Sellios ready for the structure builds to begin. As that work continues the track work is all operational.


The new plaster work also received it's first coat of paint. This area will be wooded so very little rock painting to do here. The river bed can be seen at the base of the mountain.

[bparrish]

Pretty cool........

Thanx
Bob

[ak-milw]

It's like a giant jigsaw puzzle.

[S&S RR]

Pretty cool........

Thanx
Bob

Thanks Bob - It will be cool to see the structures starting to go up.

[S&S RR]

It's like a giant jigsaw puzzle.

Andy

That is what it is right now.

[Twist67]

Hi,

the puzzle is looking good so far...can´t wait to see some structures 

Regards,Chris

[S&S RR]

Hi,

the puzzle is looking good so far...can´t wait to see some structures 

Regards,Chris

Thanks Chris - I'm trying to make a little progress every day.

[S&S RR]

Speaking of a little progress every day - I just came in from the train room to let the blue smoke clear.  I was drilling a hole for the drop wire on the last switch and I managed to get the drill bit tangled in one of the wires below the bench work that I had just soldiered.  Instead of just tearing the soldier joint loose it ripped the rail off the switch. Destructive testing of the soldier joints was not part of my quality control plan.
Sometimes you just have to walk away from it for a little while.

[bparrish]

John......

I have a good friend that often reminds me that.........." any job worth doing is worth doing twice ! ! !"

see ya
Bob

[S&S RR]

John......

I have a good friend that often reminds me that.........." any job worth doing is worth doing twice ! ! !"

see ya
Bob

Thanks Bob

Looks like I will be installing a new switch.

[deemery]

Speaking of a little progress every day - I just came in from the train room to let the blue smoke clear.  I was drilling a hole for the drop wire on the last switch and I managed to get the drill bit tangled in one of the wires below the bench work that I had just soldiered.  Instead of just tearing the soldier joint loose it ripped the rail off the switch. Destructive testing of the soldier joints was not part of my quality control plan.
Sometimes you just have to walk away from it for a little while.

The blue smoke was caused by blue language?  You're right about the need to just walk away sometimes.


dave

[S&S RR]

Speaking of a little progress every day - I just came in from the train room to let the blue smoke clear.  I was drilling a hole for the drop wire on the last switch and I managed to get the drill bit tangled in one of the wires below the bench work that I had just soldiered.  Instead of just tearing the soldier joint loose it ripped the rail off the switch. Destructive testing of the soldier joints was not part of my quality control plan.
Sometimes you just have to walk away from it for a little while.

The blue smoke was caused by blue language?  You're right about the need to just walk away sometimes.


dave

Dave

Yes - Today all is well, the switch is replaced and we are getting ready to start installing the DCC system. A few more days of wiring and we will be ready to start the installation.

[deemery]

One of my 'measures of complexity' for a project is cussing sessions, where one session consists of the use of 3 or more naughty words (to differentiate this from the occasional "damn.")   


dave

[S&S RR]

One of my 'measures of complexity' for a project is cussing sessions, where one session consists of the use of 3 or more naughty words (to differentiate this from the occasional "damn.")   


dave

I think you may have a correlation but we have to find a way to filter the noise in the data on the S&S every time Wayne burns himself with the soldiering iron.