Seaboard Central 2.0

[davefoxx]

I'm going to try going the route that DKS did on his Trenton Transportation Co. layout, where he only sanded the black styrene.  If however, I decide I want a lighter color, I'll paint it, as I did another asphalt road on the other side of the layout.  Here's a picture of that road before it was fully completed, but you can get an idea by the section of road to the right of the crossing:



If you like the street and parking in Aberdeen so far, hopefully, you'll appreciate this, too (please ignore the foam station that I'm using to try to determine what size footprint I can have for that future structure):



Thanks,
Dave

[Rich_S]

Dave, I personally prefer the gray roads over the black roads. To my eye, it does not take new Asphalt very long to start loosing it's black tar color and start looking gray. I see you have another quandary,  what size station? Since the station is on a curve, should the station be parallel with the tracks or parallel with the road? 

[Baronjutter]

Since the station is on a curve, should the station be parallel with the tracks or parallel with the road? 

Both!  Who says the station needs to be square?  Make it a slight wedge shape so there is a wall parallel to the road and a wall parallel to the track.

[Rich_S]

Both!  Who says the station needs to be square?  Make it a slight wedge shape so there is a wall parallel to the road and a wall parallel to the track.

I think this is the station Dave wants to model in Aberdeen.

[packers#1]

Dave,the grey roads, Tony due,are pretty spot on for the South,but if the sanding works go for it; as for the street layout, very nice indeed

[DKS]

The roads may take a bit more sanding to tone down the black. It takes a fair amount of elbow grease to reach this color:



No need to go back over what you've already done; a variety of grey tones only help to heighten realism.

[davefoxx]

The roads may take a bit more sanding to tone down the black. It takes a fair amount of elbow grease to reach this color:

Good to know.  I would like my roads lighter.  Thanks for the tip!

DFF

[davefoxx]

I think this is the station Dave wants to model in Aberdeen.

Nailed it, Rich.  But, as Lee guessed many months ago, I'll probably have to model it sans the baggage area.  I'm really just looking to grab the feel of the building, so painted brick, capturing that distinctive finish around the windows, should help.

I think I'll go parallel (if that's possible on a curve) to the track.  Keep in mind that all of the black styrene between the station and sidewalk will probably be foliage except where I add sidewalks to the structure and station platform.

DFF

[packers#1]

I would definitely try to go lighter on the roads outside of town, as they see less traffic and maintenance and would thus fade faster, but I think DKS's color is spot on; either way, I think you have the skills to pull this all together, looking forward to seeing more progress!

[Philip H]

I've got 3 day old blacktop in front of the house - it's already got a brownish grey patina.

[wm3798]

Dave, if you measure up  the footprint you have available with a scale rule (give me 1:160 feet and inches) I can spin up a set of building plans for scratch build of the modified station.

I used my design program to whip up this for the backdrop


And I used scale layouts to build the company houses at Thomas.








I put them in the building as if I'm designing 1:1, then simply flip them to a scale plan layout at 1:160.  Easy peasy.

Lee

[davefoxx]

Lee,

That would be awesome!  I'll do that as soon as I get home from work today.

Thanks!
DFF

[davefoxx]

Lee,

What can you do to design something to borrow the "flavor" of the Aberdeen station in a footprint of approximately 45 scale feet by 25 scale feet?  That should just leave enough room for roof overhang to not foul things up.  Obviously, the baggage area has to be left off.

Thanks,
DFF

[davefoxx]

Happy Father's Day!

Before I head out the door to spend some quality time with my father today, I'm going to pull all of the motive power and freight cars off of the layout.  That'll not only give me the opportunity to do a thorough cleaning of all of the track, but then it'll be time to decide what to dig out of storage and run.  Change can be a good thing sometimes.

DFF

[davefoxx]

Three Seaboard System B30-7s on the point of a northbound Tropicana Juice Train in North Carolina in the mid-1980s.  An RF&P caboose in pool service brings up the rear.

DFF