The Atlantic and Southern Build, Part 1

[ACL1504]

Tom...

Recall the immortal words of Groucho Marx

"I would not be a member of any organization that would have me as a member!"

see ya
Bob

Yes, and for this very reason I've pretty much been a GDI, Gosh Dang Independant most of my life.

Tom

[ACL1504]

I would be very honored to be a part of the Riff-Raff crowd.    Tom    

You're already a part of the Riff-Raff crowd, but since the other high-ranking Riff-Raff ossifer
agrees, I'll tap you on the shoulder with a piece of used and abused stripwood and make you an
official member in good standing!!

Does this mean I can only bathe on Saturday night?

[ACL1504]

I haven't been idle and did finish the third of four control panels for the lower level.



Prior to installing, or should I say reinstalling the tortoise motors, I rewired the motors and tested them. The last thing I want to do is install one and have it no longer working.



I also made a new storage area under the yard area. I move my brass locos.





Now to finish the fourth panel for the lower level.

[BandOGuy]

Between Tom and Bruce.........
I'm not sure they fall into a category of evil but I do know that they keep the diet Coke industry afloat.
Perhaps they need to be relegated to the ranks of riff - raff.
I'll see what Dave .......... riff - raff #1 has to say.
We'll soon find out ! ! ! ! ! !
see ya
Bob

I resemble David being monikered as riff-raff!   Sorry to respond to this in such tardy fashion: been busy digging out of snowbanks and deflating footballs.

[ACL1504]

Between Tom and Bruce.........
I'm not sure they fall into a category of evil but I do know that they keep the diet Coke industry afloat.
Perhaps they need to be relegated to the ranks of riff - raff.
I'll see what Dave .......... riff - raff #1 has to say.
We'll soon find out ! ! ! ! ! !
see ya
Bob

I resemble David being monikered as riff-raff!   Sorry to respond to this in such tardy fashion: been busy digging out of snowbanks and deflating footballs.

Not to worry, no wet or dry snow in O'town but it is a beautiful sunny day. And, for the record, all riff-raff are welcome to the A&S. Wonder why the Pats have all the cheating scandals. Is there fire in the smoke? I'm pulling for the Pats to win none the less as they are in my Dophins league.

Tom

[gnatshop]

I would be very honored to be a part of the Riff-Raff crowd.    Tom    

You're already a part of the Riff-Raff crowd, but since the other high-ranking Riff-Raff ossifer
agrees, I'll tap you on the shoulder with a piece of used and abused stripwood and make you an
official member in good standing!! 

Does this mean I can only bathe on Saturday night?

You got it!! But, the well might be about dry by Satiddy night!
The Ledbetters take their bathes earlier on Satiddy to be ready for their weekly trip to the joints
in town!

[gnatshop]

I resemble David being monikered as riff-raff!   Sorry to respond to this in such tardy fashion: been busy digging out of snowbanks and deflating footballs. 

I'm riff-raff to the core - and dam proud of it!!! 

[S&S RR]

I haven't been idle and did finish the third of four control panels for the lower level.



Prior to installing, or should I say reinstalling the tortoise motors, I rewired the motors and tested them. The last thing I want to do is install one and have it no longer working.



I also made a new storage area under the yard area. I move my brass locos.





Now to finish the fourth panel for the lower level.

Looks great Tom - and I think you have room on the shelf for one or two more.

[ACL1504]

John,

There was a time when I did need more but I don't think I'll get all these painted and DCC installed.

Tom

[bruce.oberleitner]

Between Tom and Bruce.........

I'm not sure they fall into a category of evil but I do know that they keep the diet Coke industry afloat.

Perhaps they need to be relegated to the ranks of riff - raff.

I'll see what Dave .......... riff - raff #1 has to say.

We'll soon find out ! ! ! ! ! !

see ya
Bob

Bobby the P,
You should know better by now.  We don't keep the "Diet Coke" folks in the Black.  It's the "Diet Pepsi" Industry that would suffer greatly if we stopped drinking the sauce.  Just look what happened to the stock market a few months back when Tom tried to give up the sauce.  Thousands of people lost their jobs and had to cross the border into Mexico to look for work.  It was a truly sad time in the history of our nation!  And to think that it happened during the holiday season no less.  I'm not sure how the Pepsi corporation was able to continue on without Tom's normal purchases.  I hear that they give big buyers like Tom a huge discount when you order in such large quantities. 

BTW Dr. Evil, you should have taken my advice a few years ago and had that Pepsi pipeline built right to your home.  Just think of all the trips to the grocery store that would have saved you! And you could have used that gas money to fund all the layout changes!  So speaking of that, How's the Extreme Layout Makeover (i.e. ELM) coming along Dr. Evil?

[ACL1504]

Cousin Brucie,

Good to see you my friend. Where have you been hiding?

I do get my Diet Pepsi at a discount. Not the kind of discount where I know a distributor or anything. I wait for it to go on sale at a really rediculous price and then LOAD UP ON THE JUICE!

And, I tried the pipeline but the stupid City of Orlando wouldn't give me the permit as they said, "If we do it for you, we'll have to permit the neighbor to pipe in coke." I said what's new most of the City is on Coke now, sniff sniff!
 
An update will follow this post my friend.

Tom

[ACL1504]

The west staging area is finished and the four and final control panel for the south end is complete and wired.





Continued in a few.

[ACL1504]

This past week I started the bench work on the second level. I used 1X4 lumber and attached 2X2 block to the 1X4 on 18" centers. I used 1 5/8" dry wall screws to attach the 2X2's.



I used tapcon screws to attach the 1X4 to the wall through the drywall and into the cinder blocks.



I then added the outside 1X4, 24" from the wall. Not the mounted 1X4 but the wall itself.



I then added the cross bracing.



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When the 8ft. section was complete, I then started on the portion fo the second level that runs down the center of  the room. I used several Quick Grips to hold everything so I could check and make sure everything was level.







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[ACL1504]

Fast forward and 24 feet of center isle second level is complete including buss wires.





The center isle will be the town of Tohope. This doesn't mean "to hope" as in I get this layout finished. Tohope (to - ho - pe) is the Seminole Indian language meaning Fort. I hope all the cry babies in DC don't try to make me change the name to Fort. Ain't gonna happen.

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