Seaboard Central 2.0

[mcjaco]

Hanging drywall is more about less joints and cuts.  I hung mine horizontal in the garage, since it had a 9' height.  Either way I hung it, i still would have a ton of taping and cutting for that top foot.

And it was easier for me to handle on my own.  Drywall is heavy when you're on your own.

[Santa Fe Guy]

Well I am very surprised that you hang your dry wall vertically. Here we run it horizontally so you only have on seam to fill right through the house. The bottom sheet is attached first then the top just sits on top. The sheets are usually cut the same width as the wall so any joins are in the corners. Both tapered sides butt together. One lot of tape and mud and the job is done.
For my layout ( in my shed ) I only used drywall on the lower half and 3 mm MDF for the top. This allowed me to put in curved corners (12" ) that makes the room look bigger and the layout backdrop painted right on top of the MDF. I made sure that the RR height was above the joint so no joints are seen.
Just some ideas.
Rod.

[conrail98]

Hanging drywall is more about less joints and cuts.  I hung mine horizontal in the garage, since it had a 9' height.  Either way I hung it, i still would have a ton of taping and cutting for that top foot.

And it was easier for me to handle on my own.  Drywall is heavy when you're on your own.

Surprised you didn't buy the 10' length and just cut the last foot off and yes on the hanging by yourself the vertical way is much easier although I've done horizontal by using a few screws to help hold up the drywall.

Anyway, most people hang them horizontally to get only one middle line, particularly when heights are 8' or less. I think vertical comes in when it's above 8' for the very reasons mentioned as well as what Dave indicates about tying more members together,

Phil

[mcjaco]

^ Length of the drywall was predicated by the size of the vehicle.  Couldn't go bigger than 4x8. 

[wm3798]

Running it horizontally puts the most critical seam (the horizontal one in the middle) in easy reach.  It also allows you to "railroad" the panels so you don't have any continuous vertical seams from floor to ceiling.  It makes for a better looking job, and I've never seen a professional crew install vertically.  You should also hold the top of the wall panels tight to the ceiling, which is easier to do running horizontally.  (By the way, install the ceiling first, unless you're using a drop ceiling system.)
Another big advantage is that all your cuts for outlets and what not end up in the bottom coarse, so you can install the top pretty much all at once, then save your fine work for the lower.  Running vertical, you'd need to locate an outlet box in each panel just about, which really slows down the job.

Lee

[davefoxx]

While organizing things before I begin the teardown of the layout and room construction, I actually did a little modeling this week.  Inspired by the newest issue of "Lines South" from the ACL-SAL Historical Society, which had an article on the very last runs of a few SCL passenger trains as of the formation of Amtrak, I body-mounted some couplers and got these SCL and ex-ACL sleepers running well with an IM FP7.  While these aren't necessarily the correct cars for the actual train, this is what some of the SCL trains looked like on May 1, 1971 when they terminated for final time: an FP7 and two cars.  Talk about a prototype train that you can model!



DFF

[C855B]

Oooo... nostalgia overload. Nice job. Growing up in SoCal, I wasn't all that familiar with RR ops in the Southeast in that era. I do recall the several articles in Model Railroader about modeling the newly-formed SCL, and a mention or two in Trains about how hostile the SOU was to railfans, photo of train crewman throwing an apple hard at the photographer a case in point, with apple caught mid-flight.

I moved to Atlanta in late '82. Being the too-fast-to-paint era (SPSF, for instance) Family Lines/SBD very quickly covered the SCL image and I never had a chance to get my railfan bearings to see much of either SCL or L&N in "native" dress. Thank you for the hint of what I missed.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I love it Dave!

Although, by that point, I'm pretty sure at least one of the body panels in that pretty FP would've been replaced with plywood...

[Rich_S]

Dave, Looks great  Of course you could probably run the same train, with a few phase 1 Amtrak coaches along with your Seaboard coaches, for the post 1971 version of your train.

Two questions, what manufacture makes / made the Southern waffle side boxcars shown on the A&R siding in the background of your photo? and how many different road numbers? 

[davefoxx]

Two questions, what manufacture makes / made the Southern waffle side boxcars shown on the A&R siding in the background of your photo? and how many different road numbers?

@Rich_S,

Those are Exactrail box cars.  They had at least three different schemes in a few different numbers each.

DFF

[svedblen]

Well I am very surprised that you hang your dry wall vertically.

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I have no real explanation. But here all types of boards always go up vertically. So I'm equally surprised
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[Cajonpassfan]

Well Rod,  maybe you have to do it sideways when you live upside down 
Otto, who hanged his drywall vertically,  but called in a pro to tape and finish. Money well spent...

[Santa Fe Guy]

Well Rod,  maybe you have to do it sideways when you live upside down 
Otto, who hanged his drywall vertically,  but called in a pro to tape and finish. Money well spent...

Could Be. LOL.

[davefoxx]

On behalf of everyone at the Seaboard Central, my daughter, Aly, wishes everyone at The Railwire a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!



DFF

[davefoxx]

UPDATE: My wife and I received a total of $350.00 in gift cards to Lowe's for Christmas, so I promised her that I would retrim and repaint the master bedroom.  Due to time constraints, this will likely put any heavy remodeling of the layout room on hold for a while.  No biggie, though, since I've been building the layout in its space for three-and-a-half years.  Maybe during the bedroom remodel, I can get a couple of sheets of drywall home and hang them on the stud wall that is the divider between the layout room and the finished portion of the basement.  That would put drywall on the wall that has the staging yards.

In the meantime, I got some inspiration to work on the layout today, i.e., I forced myself to work on an unfinished project and make some progress.  I chose the highway bridge.  This morning, I built two more sections of railing, installed them, and beveled the bottom of the posts on this side of the bridge.

I'm excited that I was able to lay the edge of a sanding board in the I-girder and lean the board sufficiently to create an even bevel under all of the posts.  Success!  That really cleaned up the look.  Oh, the railings aren't perfect, but they look good enough for a background object (that is unfortunately in the foreground ).  Construction is now roughly halfway complete.  But, I admit that this is not my idea of fun.  There's nine tiny pieces of styrene in each section and six sections on each side of the bridge.  That's fifty-four minuscule pieces for each side of the bridge and 108 total.  Ugh.  But, I'm getting there.  I'm pleased so far.



DFF