Thanks Brad! I appreciate your comments, I fear this scenery is a never ending process. But the power is a different story . Thanks for taking the time, I always enjoy seeing your modeling too! And Thank You Keith, I am still working on your prize.
Well tonight was the night the golden strip of hard shell scenery was placed. Im telling you this has been a great challenge just to get the hard shell in, never mind actually finishing a scene, (if that ever happens ). That little tool cart was a work in progress in itself, as it has been a big help to me to have some of the basic tools handy. After 3 gallons of glue, 2 1'2 rolls of resin paper, I don't know how many hot glue sticks and tubes of caulking, that electric (battery) caulking gun is worth it weight in Gold. I ended up piping air around the MRR too so air tools could be used too. Now on with getting some backdrops in, buildings installed, track painted and chat glued in so we can run some trains
A bit going on here the last few weeks. Got a yard Office built and put in with some ground cover and a few more details, never enough detail though it seems, this scene needs something else huh? maybe a plant or two here and there? Anyway crews coming and going all the time. A railfan taking pictures of Ken Wulferts switcher too. They are always taking pictures of his stuff . And a little something for Halloween maybe, here we have Twin Pines Cemetery. There are little Cemeteries scattered all along the RR's as this is where the nation was built and sometimes folks died along the way. This is a nice one, I know of at least 2 along the RR I work on that are barely marked at all. Thanks for looking!
Nice touch on the Cemetery. I have seen a few of those on the ROW. One, just a single stone north of Longmont, Co. Bill Jackson
Ha! Tom - Those railfans aren't necessarily looking at my NW2, they are looking at the true Frisco livery in the diesel era - black & yellow. They recognize classics when they see one. Speaking of classics - I like the blonde ponytail gal and the cowboy hat lady. Better looking railfans than I ever hung around with! Ken
Me Too, Jim. Tom, love the geep 35 in the lead .. Shows off the "tubes" real good. The back drop in the second photo really is good .. Fits right in with the scene. if you were in the South .. Lots of The cemeterys might have lots of weeds and a delapidated fence. P.S. The scenery cart is a very good/great idea .. Keeps all the workings out of the way. Carry on, Sir!
Thanks Guys! William. Here is a shot of those heroes of mine, the MW guys, keeping us on overtime, and on the rail when they can. Anyway if you consider the factors involved, on a loaded train there is the equivalent of loaded semi on every axle, some a bit more, some less. This may give a little perspective on the weights involved. So, say your on a loaded coal train with 400+ axles, then you are on an outfit that weighs more than 400 loaded trucks. Makes you wonder why anyone would play chicken of pull out in front of that. Could explain why the RR needs so much maintenance too! Thanks Ken, It is always a pleasure Sir, you do indeed have an eye for some of the finer things Jim I cant wait to see your updates on the Zalma branch And Thank You Sherrell, You always bring such a different perspective on a subject. Thanks again Guys!!
Very realistic scene: Frog, Guard Rails and the ties to go under the Frog. Man that wears me out just looking at it. That one guy, is spending too much time at the water can, he will probably need to head for the weed's with a empty spike can too. William Jackson
Thanks Guys! A question for someone that knows. What did temporary speed restrictions look like in the later years on the Frisco? Were they just the Yellow boards in advance, and a Green release board at the end of the restriction? I would like to include that like there was a speed restriction over the OS here. Thanks again for the comments Sherrel and William.
Tom, they used Yellow and Green two mile advance right up to merger both for slow and conditional stop. Shortly right after merger (BN) we was all rounded up and went to the BN rules of Y/R and R for conditional stop. The Slow Boards stayed the same. Back then Boards were not optional they had to be up. The BN used a floating Red, you could move it right up to the work site. I don't think the permanent's have changed for almost ever. Bill Jackson
Added some trees and a little more detail, still never enough it seems. That switch target was a lot of work to hook to the switch and have it rotate to match the throw of the switch, it is controlled by the Dispatcher. The Mooners are BLMA (what will those guys think of next?) There are 2 reverse loops and to go from one to the other requires a trip thru the main yard, up the branch, takes about 1 hour. Anyways a long way to go still, almost out of trees again. Thanks for looking,
I can definitely see the progress that you have made, so far. always so nice to see your work .. Thanks for sharing it with us. P.S. Eventually you will need to do some weathering on some of those cars. The orange boxes look straight out of the paint shop!
Thanks Sherrel, I do need to weather a bunch of them cars up. Thing is is a lot of them came from a friend of mine that passed away some years ago, and weathering them up kinda seems like I am doing something to his cars. Does that make any sense? Those Orange cereal cars I did up, painted modified. Now I would propose they didnt stay shiny Orange for very long. And Thank You Dan, Its hard to miss them isnt it? Thats the reason I got those two MKT boxcars. I enjoy seeing that era of stuff so many didderent roads and types of cars. With apologies to Ken Wulfert I dont think there is a single Pennsy car there, I would have to look again but I dont think so.
I re-sized the photos in the posts of this thread so it will be easier/quicker to view, seemed too slow to look at and enjoy. Thanks
Feel free to come do some scenic work on the Rolla Sub here. Beautiful work and smooth running. You need a big 2-8-8-2 for those tonnage trains.
I am impressed with the train's passing over itself. The ability to do this is because of great track laying techniques and smooth rolling cars. The third ingredient (may be more) that I can think of is very smooth train handling techniques so that you don't "string line" the train. I saw the CP in Canada where they have the twin looped tunnels and was very impressed with seeing the train loop over itself. Congrats on great modeling of your railroad. Terry
Brother, Please don't take this the wrong way but I really do hate, no I Loathe scenery, I see it as a necessary evil you couldn't pay me enough to do any more stinking scenery. I had offered to take a second mortgage on my house and pay Mr. Jim James to come out here and do this scenery but that was not enough, I think he would still be way underpaid. A 2-8-8-2 huh? Happy Thanksgiving, hope you all have a good day. I will do no scenery today...... Tom
