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[davefoxx]

How do you spell anachronism?  Mine includes the letters "ACL."   

DFF

[davefoxx]

Took some "me" time today and continued work on the A&R engine facility.  The concrete pad has been poured.  This is actually 0.040" styrene to bring it up to the level of the ties, and 0.020" styrene on top to cover the tracks.  The railheads stick above the styrene nicely, so that cleaning track shouldn't damage the finish of the floor.  It seems apropos to pull A&R #400 (a/k/a "Duke Blue Crane") in first.



I have since ballasted the two tracks in front of the enginehouse, but that's a mess now until the glue absorbs and dries.  Pictures of that in a day or so when the glue dries.

DFF

[davefoxx]

The ballast adhesive is still really wet, and some touch ups are needed, e.g., bubbles and bare spots to fill, grains to clean from the rails, and the final ballast profile to form.  But, in the meantime, here's a teaser:



Have a great week,
DFF

[seusscaboose]

Who's ballast is that?

[packers#1]

So...much...epic...southeastern...hawtness 

[Scottl]

Looks like you forgot one track for the engine house 

Very nice work, that code 40 gives the scene some added depth.

[conrailthomas519]

Dave, Nice Work!

[davefoxx]

Who's ballast is that?

Highball Products.  I'm using Gray Mix on the SBD and SOU lines and Dark Gray on the A&R.  Not exactly prototypical, but it will help distinguish the different railroads' tracks on the layout.

DFF

[davefoxx]

Looks like you forgot one track for the engine house 

Very nice work, that code 40 gives the scene some added depth.

Well, this enginehouse is merely a placeholder, and I don't want a third track, which would really cram the corner of the layout in track.  I'm justifying it as the enginehouse needs extra capacity for machining equipment and tools and that door is for trucks to load/unload materials.

Thanks,
DFF

[davefoxx]

Dave, Nice Work!

Thanks!

[Rich_S]

Well, this enginehouse is merely a placeholder, and I don't want a third track, which would really cram the corner of the layout in track.  I'm justifying it as the enginehouse needs extra capacity for machining equipment and tools and that door is for trucks to load/unload materials.

Thanks,
DFF

Dave, The code 40 track used in your engine service area looks great. Also we do have two truck doors on our engine house, not only for deliveries but also to allow fork lifts to enter and exit the building. We store some of the larger parts outside the engine house, mostly parts that would be exposed to weather when installed on the locomotive. Also don't forget to make a little ramp down to ground level on your truck door.

[davefoxx]

Dave, The code 40 track used in your engine service area looks great. Also we do have two truck doors on our engine house, not only for deliveries but also to allow fork lifts to enter and exit the building. We store some of the larger parts outside the engine house, mostly parts that would be exposed to weather when installed on the locomotive. Also don't forget to make a little ramp down to ground level on your truck door.

Thanks for providing a source for Ed's Law, Rich.    Great idea on the ramps.  I was planning to bring the ground level up at least somewhat once the ballast dries and I can get in there without fear of messing that up.  I also need to figure out the material that I want to use for the vehicular access, e.g., gravel, blacktop, etc.

Thanks,
DFF

[DKS]

Likewise I have seen enginehouses having a door with no tracks. Often they're used for large ground equipment, such as front loaders and hi-rails. That said, you could install a third track inside the building and leave the rails sticking out at the door (say, 1/2-inch or so) to suggest the track leading up to the door had been removed. The rails are often embedded in the concrete pad, and they can't easily be torn up, so they're just torched off near the end if they're no longer being used. This sort of detail gives a place some history.

[Rich_S]

Likewise I have seen enginehouses having a door with no tracks. Often they're used for large ground equipment, such as front loaders and hi-rails. That said, you could install a third track inside the building and leave the rails sticking out at the door (say, 1/2-inch or so) to suggest the track leading up to the door had been removed. The rails are often embedded in the concrete pad, and they can't easily be torn up, so they're just torched off near the end if they're no longer being used. This sort of detail gives a place some history.

David, If it was a wooden engine house I'd agree with your idea about the rails inside the building. Since Dave is using a metal building, which would indicate a more recent construction, everything would be fairly new. i.e. no real history to the building.

Dave, The floor in our new engine house is concrete, but the paved areas outside of the engine house are blacktop. If you can, try and reduce the size of the truck door, ours are noticeably smaller than the track doors, both in width and height.

 

[DKS]

David, If it was a wooden engine house I'd agree with your idea about the rails inside the building. Since Dave is using a metal building, which would indicate a more recent construction, everything would be fairly new. i.e. no real history to the building.

Well... not to pick nits, but that style of building has been around for decades. I've worked in a steel shed very similar to that one which is around 25 years old, and the track arrangement has been changed twice since it was built...