The Grizzly & Dilapidated Ry.

[kyle creel]

Thanx Curt; Only one more that will be 'L' shaped and go from the end of this one around the corner of the room to just past the end of the first window and 4" across the 2nd window.  Like this.......

[kyle creel]

I hope those shots looked OK; here's the real 'JUICY PART'.........!!!!!!!!!!

[Philip]

I need to build on to my lil pike! The church folks are gonna have a fit as soon as the Juke Joint is planted!

[PRR Modeler]

Kyle the landscaping looks terrific.

[kyle creel]

  Thanx Phillip, thanx Curt;  Today (Thursday) I built and installed the last 'module' of the G&D Ry. project.  It was a booger.  But I'm all done with 'Woodshop Class'-and if I never have to 'cut and square' ANYTHING again, my life will be sublime..........

  Thanx for taggin' along on the adventure so far.  There's more to come; next week I'll install the backdrop; and I'll begin work on the mural.  Paint and pastels here I come.

  OK-let's look at some shots of the days' work................




   Here 'IT' is installed..........at last...................




   Here's the whole 'enchilada'................

   
Thanx for tunnin' in; the comments and suggestions help keep things flowin'..........
KYLE CREEL
G&D Ry.   
 

[kyle creel]

  Thought I'd drop a couple o' more shots on ya'll............................
looking east..........

back to the west...........

and what's been done so far.............


  See ya.......................

[PRR Modeler]

Nice looking town.

[Jerry]

Looks great Kyle question is this the final resting place for the RR? 

Jerry

[friscomike]

Howdy Kyle,

Looks like progress to me.  Good luck with the new module.

Have fun,
mike

[kyle creel]

Thanx Curt, thanx Jerry, and thanx Mike;
  Curt, I think the town (Grizzly) did come out looking pretty good so far.  Still so much more to do.  I'm still deciding on whether or not to keep the 1 stall car repair shop, or ditch it in favor of 1 additional whisker track on each side of its' location from the TT.  That would give me 3 including the one that runs thru it now; for a grand total of 6 counting the ones on the other side of the TT.

  Jerry, If Patrice and I don't decide to, or have to move-(selling the house etc.) then this is the final resting place for the RR.

  Mike, I think if I stick to the final track plan, after all the plans I've so 'tediously' designed, gone over, modified, changed, and addapted till I came up with one that seems to be working really well- it 'oughtta' come out looking pretty good.

  That's the "plan" anyways..........thanx again for stoppin' by and checkin' out the progress.....comments, suggestions, yeas, boos, fart jokes and raspberries accepted and welcomed....."ya'll come back ya-hear"...............

KYLE CREEL
G&D Ry.

  Just a little over view..................

 

[friscomike]

Howdy Kyle,

I'm glad you have settled on the track plan.  It is easy for some of us to get lost in the redesign jungle.  The problem is, they all look good, it's just deciding which to build that seems to be hard for me.  Railroad on!

Have fun,
mike

[IWannaRetire]

Howdy Kyle,

...It is easy for some of us to get lost in the redesign jungle.  The problem is, they all look good, it's just deciding which to build that seems to be hard for me...

Have fun,
mike

Ditto!  I've done a lot of carpentry and cabinet building, give me a plan and I'm good to go. Ask me to design something and I am a deer in the headlights about to become road-kill.  I worked for a while for a master builder who could design on the go, so much was off the cuff and on-site, but it was always good.  He had an incredible innate sense of what was proportional and what looked right, it just came natural to him.   

[Michael Hohn]

Looks real, Kyle, in a way.  It offers possibilities for operations.  Easy to run, with the turnouts near the front.

I'd find it hard deciding between another track or structure.  Maybe run it some before making a final decision.

Mike

[Larry C]

Kyle this is looking really good. I agree with the others, you can get so caught in designing
that your little empire doesn't happen. I also surge with Micheal, run some trains for awhile
to see if another track is really needed.

[kyle creel]

Thanx Mike, thanx Mark, thanx Michael, and thanx Larry C.;

  Mike- it is good to just move on ahead.  The plan is a good one(non of them are perfect)and I'm really excited about the next couple of weeks.

  Mark- I hear you, and I wish I could do woodworking.  "Woodshop 1" was the only class in high school(9th grade) I got an 'F' in.  I graduated in 1972 with a
  solid B+ (88) average- ALL A's & B's. If not for that class I'd have graduated with at least a 92 average. I can't cut a straight line! - I can draw it; but that's it......

  You're right Michael, leave it as it is for now.  If I need to add more locomotive tracks on that side of the TT later on - so be it.  It is going to be fun to
  run.........

  Larry C.- You and the others are so correct.  I need to focus on moving forward, and check my options a little further down the line.......

  Today (Sunday) I built my own incline ramp outta some leftover pink foam.  It's a little rough, but I smoothed it out as much as I could with my limited tools-a wood rasp and the side (brick) of my house. I think it'll be fine once the roadbed is in. I may use a strip of very thin wood veneer (1/32") for the subroadbed surface to attach the cork roadbed to. I have some my brother gave me a few years back.  I have some 1/2" thick risers from Woodland Scenics I bought a couple of years ago to build up the flat-level portion of the rockface that leads to the mine..  I'll also to use a straight edge to make sure the surface is nice, smooth and even when I laminate it all together.   I'll use 'Liquid Nails for Foam and Wood' as the 'binder' to glue it all down and hold it together.

  That's about all for now, thanx again for checkin' in on the progress........see ya.....

KYLE CREEL
G&D Ry.

my 'home-made' incline ramp.......