The Atlantic and Southern Build, Part 1

[ACL1504]

Tom, your videos reminded me of driving down the InterState through Florida. The trees are will made and placed to break up the scene - yet provide enough density to indicate a forest. All you need to do is figure out how to make and add all those succulents to the fields.

Marty,

Your kind words are appreciated. I can't tell you how much time I've spent driving the roads and looking at pine trees.

I'm working on some decent looking under brush. I have some of the Palmetto Palm bushes and palm trees. I got them from Hart of the South Models.

http://www.hartofthesouth.com/

I think they are just a little out of scale, not the palms, but the Palmetto bushes.

More on this in the future.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Hi Tom:

Thanks for another great video.

Karl

Karl,

You are welcome and thanks for watching.

Tom

[KCS Trains]

Tom,  I really like the look you have created.  I, for one, am in favor of a lot of trees on the layout and I like to have my structures buried in the trees.  Great job.  Thanks for the video.  Phil

[ACL1504]

I think it would be great if you could try what Tom suggested and take the video a little lower thru the trees.

Steve,

I'm going to try a lower level video as Cecil B. suggested. In the mean time ya'll will have to suffer through a couple more of my Grade B videos. 


I apprecaite you taking the time to watch.


Tom

[ACL1504]

Tom,  I really like the look you have created.  I, for one, am in favor of a lot of trees on the layout and I like to have my structures buried in the trees.  Great job.  Thanks for the video.  Phil

Phil,

Thank you very much, I appreciate your stopping by and posting a comment on the trees. I do plan on adding more trees but to be honest, I did get a little burned out making these 225+ trees.

Tom

[ACL1504]

As I mentioned a few days ago, I had enough of the white striping to do one road section. I'm waiting on more and should have it by Monday.

Here is the road with the white center line.



Also, I've removed all the red stop signs and am in the process of installing the early 50's yellow stop sign with the black "STOP".

More in a few.

[ACL1504]

I wasn't pleased with how the road came out crossing the tracks in the rural area. So, I removed the sand and will install crossing planks instead.

[ACL1504]

Illinois Central, City of Miami, leaving pine forest.

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[tct855]

I wasn't pleased with how the road came out crossing the tracks in the rural area. So, I removed the sand and will install crossing planks instead.

ACL 1504,
         Growing up down south, I can't remember crossings (including rural ones) were simple sand. Is your sand crossing representing sand or gravel? I suspect gravel.  I remember clay dirt, gravel, wood planks, rubber,  asphalt, concrete, and in some really rural areas towards louisiana chet.  Sand?  What say you master?  Cecil B...

[ACL1504]

Thom,

As a small boy, I've seen plenty of sand crossing. The sand was just poured over the tracks. The wheels of the loco created their own flange way.

I'm going to replace the sand with HO scale 4X6's.

Tom

[Janbouli]

Great sound in the video , I thought I even heard birds chirping.

[tct855]

Thom,

As a small boy, I've seen plenty of sand crossing. The sand was just poured over the tracks. The wheels of the loco created their own flange way.

I'm going to replace the sand with HO scale 4X6's.

Tom

T~,
        Boy, I sure lead a sheltered life.  Either that or my Dad was right.  I'm a idiot! ha.  Thanks for the continued edgamacation smokey!  Cecil B. out...

[bagman]

Illinois Central, City of Miami, leaving pine forest.

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Outstanding Tom ! Really like all the work you are doing on your layout.
Very nicely done. Neat and tidy and looking real nice.

Congratulations on the progress so far. You should be very pleased and satisfied.

David

[ACL1504]

Great sound in the video , I thought I even heard birds chirping.

Jan,

Thank you, much appreciated. If I ever learn the editing function, I'll have some birds chirping. I was thinking of an owl hooting also.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Thom,

As a small boy, I've seen plenty of sand crossing. The sand was just poured over the tracks. The wheels of the loco created their own flange way.

I'm going to replace the sand with HO scale 4X6's.

Tom

T~,
        Boy, I sure lead a sheltered life.  Either that or my Dad was right.  I'm a idiot! ha.  Thanks for the continued edgamacation smokey!  Cecil B. out...

Thom,

The sand crossings I've seen were on rural industrial spurs, so I tried mine. We all know how this one turned out.

The others I saw were in the BFE Alachua County, Home of the Gators. It was, and this makes sense, on a spur leading to a borrow pit where they dug the white sand. This was in Hawthorne, Fl. Of all days, I had no camera.

There was one here at the old SAC, Strategic Air Command, at Pine Castle Air Base, Now Orlando International Airport.

Bob Snow, owner of Church Street Station, had his old Pullman and Observation cars on the spur. Here is the observation car after it sat on the siding in downtown Orlando for 18 years.

Tom