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Re: Colorado Midland Railway Engineering Report
« Reply #420 on: February 25, 2016, 11:26:55 PM »
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Quote from: Chris333 on February 25, 2016, 11:11:19 PM
That escalated quickly!

Part of why I've made little to no progress is that bridge scene.  I couldn't finish tracklaying until I had the bridges in place.  I couldn't install the bridges until I had the scenery around them roughed in.  But I couldn't rough in the scenery for the trestle without installing the trestle.  And so on.

So what I did was essentially slap on a pile of ground goop and then shove the wood trestle into it.  I hope it dries okay!  Thankfully, this miniature Colorado is in the real Colorado where the winter air is desert-dry.
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Re: Colorado Midland Railway Engineering Report
« Reply #421 on: February 27, 2016, 03:22:17 PM »
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Today I laid more roadbed, prepped more rock faces, added stone abutments for the tall wood trestle, and added more rock debris.

My goal for the weekend will be to have trains running on the mainline.  More pics tomorrow.  Wife and kids are going skiing but I'm hanging back (still getting over bronchitis) so I will spend most of the day in the basement working on the Midland.
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Re: Colorado Midland Railway Engineering Report
« Reply #422 on: February 28, 2016, 01:00:34 PM »
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...which kinda reminds me of:



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Re: Colorado Midland Railway Engineering Report
« Reply #423 on: February 28, 2016, 01:08:15 PM »
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Gorgeous!  :trollface:

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Re: Colorado Midland Railway Engineering Report
« Reply #424 on: February 28, 2016, 02:37:08 PM »
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The upskirt shot of trainporn  :o
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Re: Colorado Midland Railway Engineering Report
« Reply #425 on: February 28, 2016, 08:32:09 PM »
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It's alive!!!  Much tuning remains to be done, though...

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Re: Colorado Midland Railway Engineering Report
« Reply #426 on: February 28, 2016, 08:43:31 PM »
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Very chill, Dave.Will the canyon scene be against a backdrop once the layout is in its actual position?
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Re: Colorado Midland Railway Engineering Report
« Reply #427 on: February 28, 2016, 08:49:29 PM »
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Quote from: basementcalling on February 28, 2016, 08:43:31 PM
Very chill, Dave.Will the canyon scene be against a backdrop once the layout is in its actual position?

Day to day, yes, but I plan to use this as a show layout.  On display it'll be visible from all sides.
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Re: Colorado Midland Railway Engineering Report
« Reply #428 on: March 02, 2016, 11:17:34 PM »
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More scenery supplies arrived today!  Also en route to the Midland is a proper electrostatic grass applicator.



More rolling stock as well.  The Midland was controlled by the AT&SF for much of its life but by my era, the D&RG held controlling stock.  Even so, the Midland remained a major bridge route for AT&SF traffic between Colorado Springs and the D&RG at New Castle.

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Re: Colorado Midland Railway Engineering Report
« Reply #429 on: March 03, 2016, 08:30:18 AM »
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I want to see your M1 on those bridges...
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Re: Colorado Midland Railway Engineering Report
« Reply #430 on: March 03, 2016, 11:12:28 PM »
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Quote from: Ed Kapuscinski on March 03, 2016, 08:30:18 AM
I want to see your M1 on those bridges...

I want to see my M1...period... 
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Re: Colorado Midland Railway Engineering Report
« Reply #431 on: March 04, 2016, 08:59:38 AM »
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Mu ha ha ha ha!  Dr. Hotballs!
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Re: Colorado Midland Railway Engineering Report
« Reply #432 on: March 05, 2016, 07:47:01 AM »
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Mu ha ha ha ha!  Dr. Hotballs!

He had to change his name because people were always asking him to make new kits of European buildings. :D
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Re: Colorado Midland Railway Engineering Report
« Reply #433 on: March 16, 2016, 11:16:36 PM »
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Inspiration!

I saw a model of a smelter on the Nearsighted Narrow Gaugers' HOn3 modular layout at the Rocky Mountain Train Show in Denver the other weekend and realized that it was something my Colorado Midland layout was missing.



Aspen had a smelter back in the day, and I can only find a few photos of it.  To be honest, I haven't given much thought to what a wild west smelter should look like or how it should work.  The good news is that I found this:

http://www.raggstoriches.biz/RWSMainpage.html

It's based on a smelter from roughly the same era at Silverton, CO and is about the size of the Aspen smelter:



I had stockpiled a bunch of scratchbuilding supplies in anticipation of building both a stamp mill and an enclosed headframe.  So on hand I have styrene board-and-batten, corrugated metal, board siding, double-hung windows, loading doors, and everything I'd need.

Additionally, I have a square brick smokestack from a Walthers Vulcan Mfg kit, a Motrak Models structure that looks like a turn-of-the-century industrial office building, and resin castings from @Chris333 to make a stone boiler house.  I have extra Micro Engineering mine trackage for the tailings pile and sorting bins.



I think this will be a fun project!
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Re: Colorado Midland Railway Engineering Report
« Reply #434 on: March 17, 2016, 03:32:43 AM »
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I looked on the Gazette DVD for "smelter" and didn't find much except a ton of interior stuff.

Looked up "Colorado Midland" while at it and found:
Ivanhoe depot plans
Cascade Canon Station plans
loco #15 plans
short caboose plans
boxcar plans
flatcar plans

If any of that helps the layout?
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