N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout

[OldEastRR]

You made the AHM Bakery into an enginehouse. Neat!
Maybe "Cornersville" should be renamed "Bridgeton" now.

[wm3798]

Yes, I made that conversion ... jeez... 35 years ago.  I needed a small engine house for a very compact shelf style yard.



In that instance the turntable was scratch built with an embroidery hoop and a headphone jack.

Lee

[Ed Kapuscinski]

This new scene gives me big Grand Junction vibes.

[wm3798]

Test fit.

[wm3798]

I got a new toner cartridge, so I was finally able to print the roadway for my new highway bridge.


Since it's a black and white printer, I have to "color in" the lines.


Easily done with a straight edge and a yellow highlighter.


I used the same file I made several years ago when I printed the original section of the bridge when I used a color ink jet.  Pretty good match, wouldn't you say?


So next to build the deck and prep the sidewalks.  I think I have a couple more of those street lights, I just have to remember where I put them...

[wm3798]

Dug through everything I own last night and couldn't produce the remains of the 3/8 tile Evergreen sheet I used for sidewalks.  I've got all the strip stock and railings I need, but nothing to glue it too.

Also holding up the Paw Paw building installation.

Guess I'll be heading up the hill to see the good folks at Main Line sometime this week!

Lee

[NorthWestGN]

The bridge and roadway look great Lee. I have to commend you on your modelling speed, you’re not messing around! I’m more of a doddler, tend to over think things and not get near as much done…

Brent

[wm3798]

My modeling time is pretty catch as catch can, so I try to have all my ducks in a row when it's time to actually hit the workbench.

Which is why it was so frustrating to not be able to find the sheet of 3/8 tile that I KNOW I have somewhere.  The damn thing would have been done last night were it not for that!

Lee

[amato1969]

Sweet highlighter hack right there!!!

[wm3798]

Finished the bridge deck at the junction.


Of course, after assembly, I found the can of "sand dollar" I used on the original bridge.  I used Camo Khaki on the new section.  Bothe are good concrete colors, but as you can see, not the same when juxtaposed.



Once I get the fascia sorted, I'll trim the bridge to follow it.

I also have to build a pier that makes sense crossing the river at the angle it does.  I'm thinking two or three columns with a lintel.

Then on to lighting and detailing.  I think I'll drop a light under the deck to illuminate the wye track below.

Generally the scene is coming together the way I envisioned it.

Now, enough procrastination.  Time to sift through the mountain of accumulated stuff to see what's getting sacrificed on the Altar of N Scale Weekend...a mere week away!

 

Lee

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Did you use Camo Khaki or Camo Tan? They're not the same, and I've actually labeled my Khaki can "NOT FOR USE FOR CONCRETE".

[nkalanaga]

As I said in Weekend Update, who says both bridges were built at the same time, or with the same aggregate mix?

[wm3798]

Working on the sidewalks to finish up Winchester Street in downtown PawPaw.


A little tricky to get the geometry right around and up the switchback.  But it's coming together.





With this bit of business done, it's on to the paint booth for some concrete.  When that cures I can glue it all together and install the fiddledy bits in the alley.

Also built the new pier for the extended highway bridge.



Lee

[wm3798]

And now painted and assembled.





Lee

[OldEastRR]

Have you thought about putting a pedestrian stairway next to the side of the lowest level building? For people to get to the upper town w/o taking their chances walking along or crossing that very narrow, blind-curve street. The stairway (w. railings) could angle up the side of the end building, then take a turn around the back of it to angle up to a walkway/platform that comes out at the side of the grade crossing on the upper level. From there a sidewalk crossing the tracks and going to the homes on the top side. Whole thing, of timbers.
Remembering an era when people didn't only drive to where they were going.

Oof ... I wouldn't try driving down (or up) that road on a sleety, icy night.

 I like how you just chop off the highway overpass structural members where they come to the edge of the world (layout).