Clearwater Valley Railway Co.

[Larry C]

Ron well done!

[Philip]

 

[Jerry]

Nice job Ron.  Glad you saved the tree!!!

Jerry

[elwoodblues]

Thanks for the kind words Curt, Rick, Larry, Philip and Jerry. 

Jerry, it seems that the contractor involved in the tunnel widening is environmentally friendly.   

[elwoodblues]

Managed some work on the layout today so this installment is called....

The terraforming continues. . . . 

Before I get into today's progress



I've been curious to see how it would look with a train coming out of the tunnel into the staging yard area so I made a mock-up of the tunnel opening using a 1" thick piece of pink foam.  When complete this will be a rock face, unless I change my mind. 





On to this evenings work.  I decided to put down a base layer of Scuptamold.  I have never used this product before so I mixed up small batches and applied it to the base.  What is shown here is 2 batches.





A few batches later the base layer is complete.





I "planted" the bridge piers into the Scuptamold so that once the Scuptamold is set the piers will drop in place once the base scenery is done.





A had a couple of small rock castings that I decided to plant into the Sculpamold to give a little variety to the scenery.





A close-up of a couple of the rock castings.

[elwoodblues]

I carefully removed the bridges so that I can work on the scenery without worrying about damaging the bridges.

That's it for now, thanks for looking in.

[Jerry]

Looks like your off to good start.

You are going to get rid of the pink!!!!! 

Jerry