The Atlantic and Southern Build, Part 1

[S&S RR]

This morning Jimmy D really came through and bailed me out BIG TIME!

I'm sure glad he know's what he's doing. All that was lost in the file corruption was a few months worth of the layout thread narration.

In the next few days, I'll do a photo essay from the September 4 post by Jan. The photo essay will only be pictures to bring all up to date. I won't even attempt to add any significant narrative.

I also see my post count is back to date, so whom ever did it, thank you.

Tom

Great to see all is well in forum land!

[ACL1504]

Yes , indeed! We owe it all the the Masterful Jimmy D. and HIS back up system.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Photo wise, here is where the thread stopped or got corrupted and couldn't be recovered. This next picture is the one on page 140 of this thread.




Continue to all the pictures to get up to date and will even add some sort of narrative when necessary. It won't be much but enough to let you know some of my thinking back then.

I have about 26 pages of 20 pictures per page so I will take a few days to get caught up.

These next few pictures show where I'm trimming the parking lot so the freight and passenger cars will fit without hitting the railing.

[ACL1504]

Over all view of the station with LEDs under the passenger platforms.

[ACL1504]

Here I'm working on the road crossing across the tracks and under the passenger platforms to the parking lot.

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Adding a dirt road to the front side of the mainline.

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Here is where I started to layout my ideas for scenery on the Suwanee River Basin area.













I'll add a few more pages later this afternoon.

Tom

[GPdemayo]

Heeeeee's back.....

[S&S RR]

Heeeeee's back.....

Yup - We all get to see what happens the next time he fills the bit bucket. Tom remember to start another thread before you get the bucket too full again.  Just sayin. It sure is great to have you back posting.

[PRR Modeler]

Congratulations on the start. I know it's got to feel good.

[Powersteamguy1790]

Thats great news Tom. Have fun with it....

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

[ACL1504]

Greg, Curt and Bob,

Thank you all for the support. I am back of sorts. I plan to continue my work on the layout next Monday. That will be 7 weeks post surgery and I'm feeling up to at least a little more than a few hours a day work.

I thank you for following along.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Heeeeee's back.....

Yup - We all get to see what happens the next time he fills the bit bucket. Tom remember to start another thread before you get the bucket too full again.  Just sayin. It sure is great to have you back posting.

John,

Thanks for the support. I've decided to keep this thread open to see what happens when I hit the 200th page again.

I'm going to back up the pages as you suggested. My son in law is an IT guy and he is going to show me how to save the entire thread and pages in a easy format.

Kind of like saving a photo. If I do get another corrupted file, I can just copy and paste the pages back.

I don't want my followers to have to go and find part one to check something.

A chance yes, but one I'm willing to take at the moment.


Tom

[ACL1504]

Reading Bob built this wonderful FOS model of Barlow's Smokehouse for the Atlantic and Southern. It is one of it not the main focus of the Suwannee River Curve.






I know a mind is a terrible thing to loose but I took me awhile to remember why I had the following photos in the thread. then I remembered.

This is when I decided to blend the Delwin's Diorama into the layout. It will become more clear in another dozen photos.

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This next photo shows how much of the diorama I needed to remove to bring it to a better fit.



I also made sure the fascia was level.