WM Western Lines Engineering Report

[DKS]

Lee, that scene is really taking shape and the blob has been tamed! 

Agreed!

[wm3798]

I'll have to have one of my goons at the store smash a mirror so I can get the proper sized piece...

Lee

[wazzou]

Check into one of those front reflecting mirrors Lee.

[Bob Bufkin]

rBreaking a mirror is bad luck don't you know.  I'll buy you the damn mirrow.

[wm3798]

Bob, that's why I have my volunteers break the mirrors!!

[Bob Bufkin]

Hey, I'm just trying to keep your employees safe.  OSHA and all that you know.

[packers#1]

I really dig those brick canyon POVs.
 The Final Countdown

+1
Lee, I'm really digging how you added the extra blending; and also, I vote for the catwalk idea

[DKS]

I have loads of first-surface mirror material, more than enough scraps to provide a piece of the proportions needed for the end of the street. Just let me know.

PS, did the dormers arrive?

[seusscaboose]

I'll have to have one of my goons at the store smash a mirror so I can get the proper sized piece...

Lee

i got a piece that would fit right in there...  if ya still need it the next time you stop by

[wm3798]

Thanks for the offers of mirror bits...  If only my timing was better, you could have put it in the box with the dormers!  (which did, by the way, arrive in yesterday's post.... they are magnificent!  An N scale bronze plate is being cast in your honor to be placed next to the one dedicated to Zox for his window work...)

Here's the catwalk...  and what a difference it makes!!  If it's important for the mirror cutters, the opening is 39' (n scale) wide by about 24' high.



And within moments of unpacking the contents of my NZT pack, shot this...


A little sanding, a little paint, and all I'll have left to do is to fabricate the platform roof and a couple of chimneys...

I think I'd like to call this "better modeling through collaboration"....

This is really coming together now.  Thanks to all!
Lee

[seusscaboose]

looking good

[seusscaboose]

Thanks for the offers of mirror bits...  If only my timing was better, you could have put it in the box with the dormers!  (which did, by the way, arrive in yesterday's post.... they are magnificent!  An N scale bronze plate is being cast in your honor to be placed next to the one dedicated to Zox for his window work...)

Here's the catwalk...  and what a difference it makes!!  If it's important for the mirror cutters, the opening is 39' (n scale) wide by about 24' high.



And within moments of unpacking the contents of my NZT pack, shot this...



A little sanding, a little paint, and all I'll have left to do is to fabricate the platform roof and a couple of chimneys...

I think I'd like to call this "better modeling through collaboration"....

This is really coming together now.  Thanks to all!
Lee

so i literally "drove this" yesterday... and really really need to give kudo's to Lee....   the "overpass/station" positioning... plus the building underneath... .  i mean... it is all there....

now granted...  there is a little modelling whimsy...   but it completely (not kinda) gets the feel for that couple block section of Cumberland.

it is one thing to see it here in pics... .it is another to actially see it with your own eys...

yesterday... as i was driving into cumberland and saw it... and thought of Lee's efforts... i was like... DAMN... he got it!

[Bob Bufkin]

I'M GETTING BETTER LOOKING ALL THE TIME

[wm3798]

Thank you Eric.  I've had this scene on the brain since my first real visit there in 1989.  It's deeply satisfying to see it coming to life in scale.

It'll be even better once I get the layout cleaned up and trains running again!

Lee

[dnhouston]

It's all coming together very nicely Lee.  Always nice when what you "see" in your mind works out on the layout.