Superior & Seattle Railroad Build (Volume 4) Started 8/14/21

[S&S RR]

John..............

I think I have told you this before but here it is again............  If you are not careful you're going to have a real railroad on your hands.

This is very cool

Thanx
Bob

Bob


Thank you for following along and the kind words. I'm having a lot of fun building this layout so we will see if I ever have a real railroad on my hands.

[bparrish]

John....

Have you given any thought as to operations on the railroad?

It would be a great one..

see ya
Bob

[S&S RR]

John....

Have you given any thought as to operations on the railroad?

It would be a great one..

see ya
Bob

Bob


I do have a plan for starting operations sessions on the layout.  I'm a few years out at this point because I always have a section of the layout under construction.  After the completion of the next two major sections of the layout I will have designed in work arounds so operations can begin.  I attend a local operations group and operate on friends layouts at this point. We are starting to have some shake down sessions on the S&S RR where we run multiple trains and locate where work needs to be done on the track work. My Grandkids are getting real good at that - Papa has three places where he needs to do some work before their next visit.

[S&S RR]

Update:  My workbenches are slowly filling up with subassemblies. I'm putting the walls together before I paint them and add the window and door castings, for this group of builds.  I want to figure out placement and color on the layout before I finish them. Once I get everything ready I will spend a couple days looking at different scenarios.

[S&S RR]

Update:  The progress on the S&S RR is going to be mostly in the Research and Design phase the next couple of weeks. It's that time of the year when the leaves have to be mulched and everything needs winterization both at my cabin and at home. I also like to do some fishing this time of the year for steelhead trout. Unfortunately, the fishery is in trouble so I do a lot more fishing than catching these days.  I have completed the detail painting on about half of the castings in that big batch I posted pictures of a couple weeks ago. It' a great evening at the cabin job.

[Lynnb]

I'm caught up , I think your lineup of the structures looks good, I'm not sure if your colour sample sticks were used for the setup but I can see how they would help. Your trees and backdrop are spot on.
By the way I like the idea of the grey bins for the castings.

[postalkarl]

Hey John:

Just beautiful as I said and you are quite welcome. What kit is that you are building.

Karl

[S&S RR]

I'm caught up , I think your lineup of the structures looks good, I'm not sure if your colour sample sticks were used for the setup but I can see how they would help. Your trees and backdrop are spot on.
By the way I like the idea of the grey bins for the castings.

Lynn


Thank you for stopping by and the kind words. The color sticks really help me with color choices.

[S&S RR]

Hey John:

Just beautiful as I said and you are quite welcome. What kit is that you are building.

Karl

Karl


I think you are referring to the BarMills FSM Tribute #1 kit, I also have Sayles Mill, the FSM Water Tank 240, and the Icing Platform FSM kit 210 on the workbench.

[S&S RR]

Update: It is officially modeling season.  I returned, yesterday, from my hunting trip and there is modeling activity on my workbench. Let the fun begin. Updated build pictures, soon.

[postalkarl]

Hey John:

You are quite welcome.

Karl

[Rail and Tie]

More importantly, was the hunting trip successful?


We back onto crown property behind us and lots of friends ask if they can come through our place to get to the mountain. (the only way up there is through our place.  All we ask is a 10% levy to use our gate!  Just got a couple of Moose backstraps from a friend who got a moose earlier this week.


BTW, that is a whole lot of castings to paint!

[S&S RR]

More importantly, was the hunting trip successful?


We back onto crown property behind us and lots of friends ask if they can come through our place to get to the mountain. (the only way up there is through our place.  All we ask is a 10% levy to use our gate!  Just got a couple of Moose backstraps from a friend who got a moose earlier this week.


BTW, that is a whole lot of castings to paint!

Darryl


Yes - the hunt was extremely successful.  I got to spend some quality time with family and I also got a very large "for our area" white tail buck. Third largest lifetime, for me. The meat is going to go to a neighbor that watches my cabin for me.  He can't go hunting this year because his wife needed surgery and he is now head nurse. Having a deer in the freezer is a big deal up there, especially with the prices of food going through the roof.


Yes - I do have a lot of castings to paint.


Thank you for stopping by the thread.

[S&S RR]

Update:  It's time for another round of what's on my workbench pictures.


More subassembly work for the Bar Mills F&SM Tribute #1 build.

[S&S RR]

The canopy glue has been added to all the window castings for the current builds and they have been carefully stacked to dry.