Boston Mountains Sub-Division

I made a mistake on the template for the coal mine, size is wrong, should be three inches wide instead of four. The new template has seven poles made from 0.100 inch wood Qtips 0.75 inches long and 0.125" square Balsa wood top beams four inches long. Cross braces are going to be six styrene stripes 0.060 by 0.010 inches.

Edit: Added photo.

Joe

 

I've been moving all of the big items from storage the last three days and haven't worked on anything layout related. This morning I'm going to continue cutting poles and beams for the bents for coal mine. Need to go to Hobby Town to purchase some 0.060 by 0.010 inch strip styrene this afternoon and start bent assembly.

Joe

 

Just finished one bent.

Joe

 

I moved four modules from storage this afternoon and set up the Arkansas River Bridge in the living room to see how much damage. It's a mess, will take a lot of time to repair. The brown span and south lift tower are the worst. May have to replace the the side trusses, luckily the kit came with extra trusses.

Joe







Gabby said she would help, as you can see she's all excited. She will be 19 years old in March.

 

I remember what you said about the rigging, this will be a good time to make changes. Thank you Mark.

 

This afternoon I disassembled the bridge and gave each one a good look over. Its not as bad as I thought, just a few pieces to glue back on.

My hobby time is maybe a hour each day here lately. On my previous layout most of the eight modules were built hour/day before I went to work. This was around 2002 & 03, had trains running just before I retired. It was my second try on medium sized layouts.

Joe

 

That is an impressive bridge!! Any progress?

Did you know I used to model N scale? Age and the resultant eyesight change moved me to HO and HOn3. If space weren't such an issue, I'd probably switch to O scale!!!

Paul Moore

 

Thank you Paul. I haven't been able to work on the layout for some time, too many things going on. Will explain in the Hi from Broken Arrow thread..