Weekend Update 8/12/12

[Dave V]

Holy Cow Dave!  How nervous were you taking out that mountain?!  I know I would have been.  I can tell by your progress so far your swiftly on your way to get it back together.  Also, congrats on the GMR 2014!

Thanks, but since my mountain looks like amateur night compared to your masterpiece, ripping it off and sticking it back on was hardly frightening.  Now, if it were covered with Supertrees and carefully placed rock castings, that might be another story.

[M.C. Fujiwara]

Wow.
So much great work this week.
Trees, sheds, snow, weathered cars... makes me want to start 42 more projects right now!

Also makes my measly little flatcar tanker look like "well what the F*@# were you doing this week?!?"



My only excuse is that it gets over 100 deg. in my garage after 10 or 11 am.
(I know, I'll get up earlier...)

Great work, peoples!

[sizemore]

I'm still getting settled into the house however the focus this weekend was getting some time setting up a new workspace in ACME Labs. I built a workbench/testing table for locomotives and freight cars, I call it "The Skunkwerks Gauntlet". The table will have a loop of code 55, and then some lengths of code 40 in the middle. Unfortunately Star Hobby didn't open today, so I'll just have to pick up track next week. I'd like to make the loop whiz bang to facilitate automatic speed matching, but still scouring old posts to figure out how it was done by others.



The S.

[dougnelson]

A+!  Nicest K4 I've ever seen.  I'd prefer it to the PSC brass one.   Those drivers and valve gear really make it!

Hi Max:
Thanks for the comment.  That is high praise considering your history of PRR steamers.  Impressive work on your layout.

Doug.

[rochsub]

More work on Global III

[TrainCat2]

While in Grand Rapids, I got some more work done on one of the main truss for the Deck Truss bridge.

[kalbert]

I finished my model of the SunRich fertilizer building -



Cheers,
-Mark

Must be bulk fertilizer storage month, yours is a real beaut! I've been plugging away here and there on one too. Mine's a much smaller one based on a generic plan from an NDSU Ag department website. http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/aben-plans/APA63520.pdf

I did a Google sketcup a few weeks ago with some liberties taken from the original plan, it's turned out to be quite a bit smaller than I was expecting but that'll open the door for an add on shed of some kind/



This weekend we were at 1st Ave in Minneapolis for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, so I snuck over to St. Paul to Scale Model Supplies and picked up some Evergreen plain and clapboard sheets and a Rix elevator kit. Still a ways to go... The Rix elevator looks pretty heavy duty, I'm thinking I might scratch up a slightly thinner one and use this one somewhere else.

[Wutter]

Only handrails left 

[spookshow]

Looks great, Kyle. I didn't realize these fertilizer storage buildings all looked basically the same. Sounds like a good opportunity for Walthers to make a kit (HO only, of course )

Cheers,
-Mark

[RockGp40]

Love this particular loco and the mismatched schemes. I would like to do the 4710 myself one one day and also this poor U-boat:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=762919

[cv_acr]

So.... how exactly do passengers get from the station to the opposite platform on the other side of the tracks there? 

[Kisatchie]

So.... how exactly do passengers get from the station to the opposite platform on the other side of the tracks there? 

Hmm... I'm guessing a
catapult...

[lock4244]

So.... how exactly do passengers get from the station to the opposite platform on the other side of the tracks there? 

They cross at the grade crossing on the far side of the station.

[Dave V]

So.... how exactly do passengers get from the station to the opposite platform on the other side of the tracks there? 

There was a "subway" or tunnel underneath the tracks.  I have not modeled the staircases.

[dnhouston]

Spent the weekend installing/painting valences, and installing the plywood and roadbed for the upper level