The Atlantic and Southern Build, Part 1

[ACL1504]

These next two posts really don't have anything to do with layout building but it is layout related.

I spent quite a bit of time hand painting Tomar markers yellow. They come black and since I'm installing them in a few brass cabeese, they needed to be yellow.



Here are a few of the brass cabeese that will receive the markers.



The two Seaboard in the middle left of the photo are plastic.

More in a few.

[ACL1504]

I was going through some boxes and found a neat hopper I forgot I had. It's a Train Minature 36' ribbed Hopper and lettered for the famous Virginian & Ohio.

This will be built and added to the hopper fleet on the Atlantic and Southern RR.

[ACL1504]

Tom,

Appreciate that you took the time to repost the pictures you lost to the network crash.  The area looks very rustic like the backwoods should. 

I like the lighting you did in the area.  It really adds something to the scene.

Steve,

You are very welcome. I felt like I needed to at least re-post the pictures so new followers would be able to make a smooth transition without a large gap of missing information.

I hope to make the new rural area even more backwoods like.

I'm anxious to get moving on some of it. However, there is a lot of prep work to do prior to getting the scenery started.

I think everyone will be pleased with the outcome.

Tom

[PRR Modeler]

Look forward to seeing the new section develop. Can't wait to see the marker lights on the cabeese.

[GPdemayo]

It's about time you got back to work.....you've been slacking much to long. 

[ACL1504]

Look forward to seeing the new section develop. Can't wait to see the marker lights on the cabeese.

Curt,

I appreciate you following along on the build. I'll be posting some cabeese pictures in a week or two.

Tom

[ACL1504]

It's about time you got back to work.....you've been slacking much to long. 

Greg,

Ain't it the truth my friend, ain't it the truth.

Tom

[Powersteamguy1790]

Tom:

Having fun working on that new area

Stay cool and run steam....... 8

[Twopoint2]

Tom glad to hear your feeling better and making progress on the layout, buy the way it looks awesome.

[ak-milw]

Nice big area to fill in Tom, should take awhile.

[ACL1504]

Tom:

Having fun working on that new area

Stay cool and run steam....... 8

Bob,

This has been an area I've wanted to work on for a couple of years now. I'll have some updates this afternoon.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Tom glad to hear your feeling better and making progress on the layout, buy the way it looks awesome.

Jim,

Still recovering from the prostate surgery and getting over a light flu bug, but back working on the layout is good medicine.

And, thank you for the compliment.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Nice big area to fill in Tom, should take awhile.

Andy,

Thanks for stopping by. It will take some time but I sure will be a whole bunch of fun.

More this afternoon.

Tom

[ACL1504]

The rural area I'm working on is flat, very flat. I need the ground and roadways to be level. I need the ground to be level with the track, yet separated from the roadway and track right of way.

The Atlantic and Southern RR track in this area is on 1/4" cork ballasted roadbed. I need the roads in the area to be some what level with the track.

I used a marker with black ink to mark the proposed road location.



This road is also part of the road several miles away in West Tahope. This is Old Dixie Hwy.



More in a few.

[ACL1504]

For the roadway, I used the 1/4" cork roadbed to raise it to track level.

More in a few.