Six months after the collapse of shelving, the JJJ&E is alive and well

This past June 5, on Sunday evening, shelving and all its contents on an adjacent wall next to the JJJ&E collapsed on the Upper level. Needless to say, there was extensive damage to the backdrop, buildings, loco's, rolling stock and trees.

There is an old saying; "time heals all wounds".

Here are some new pictures of the Upper level of the JJJ&E:












Stay cool and run steam.....

 

Bob .. are you using some sort of filter? .. the rock images appear pinkish to me

 

That looks great Bob.

 

John:

I'm not using any filter. Looks more like red rock to me.


This is photo of the same area before June 5.




The cliffs look the same color to me; red rock.


Stay cool and run steam.....

 

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Bob,
Sorry to hear about the accident, but glad to see the JJJ&E is back under operation!

Dave

 

Thanks Dave. Most of the repair work was finished in about four weeks.

Russ Straw was kind enough to cast up numerous Mikado tender trucks for me as six tenders had their trucks completely shattered under the weight of falling boxes . I still have small repairs on two buildings that haven't been completely restored. I have the parts but haven't glued them in place.

These were the first group of pictures I've taken since June.

Stay cool and run steam.....

 

Bob,

It's good to see that you are back up and running!

It was July when the hard disk containing all the design files for the Santa Fe & Cajon Pass decided to shut itself down. That was a disguised blessing. Just last week I was able to redraw all of the plans and make the renderings. I was able to reduce the number of legs holding up the bench work to just two. This opportunity was a good time to review all the previous work and make some much-needed changes.

Jerry

 

Bob, that is looking real good! :thumbs_up:
Your railroad is just emulating real life. Sometimes there is "urban renewal". Glad to see the trains are running.

 

Glad to see the restoration. I was hoping you would do so. I remember how upset you were when it happened.

 

Ok .. Maybe its the way it shows on my laptop .. thanks .. I thought maybe the photoshop or some other post processing was skewing the colors .. glad to see you are making progress on your restoration .. the one think about layouts, there is always room for improvement and rebuilding

 

Fine job of restoration. I can only imagine the thoughts running through your mind when the disaster occurred. I went through a disaster of sorts back over a year ago when a stack of boxes I had foolishly stacked to high and too unstable tipped. Each box contained four layers of cars that I had recently completed converting to MT trucks and couplers, all were packed in between layers of foam. The force of the impact literally shattered MT trucks, and disintegrated MT couplers into many pieces including totally snapping some into unrepairable pieces. Some cars were so badly damaged as to be unrepairable. Out of about 250 cars involved in the debacle 50 where completely destroyed. And of course as the fickle N scale Gods of Fate decreed the ones destroyed totally were most of my scratchbuilt ones that were irreplacable. Considering the amount of time we often put into some of our detailing and projects, managing a recovery in that short of time is remarkable.
Well done.

 

Bob,

Very nice job getting everything repaired.

 

Glad to see everything is back to better than it was before. Bob (PSG1790). Look at it this way, if part of the enjoyment of model railroading is in the building, you got twice the joy out of building parts of your railroad!

Well, at least that puts a better face on the disaster. :angel:

 

I see you've added some details. Nice job all around!

I've got a little more to do before I declare my disaster as recovered. Mostly details from ships. I hardly notice they are missing, and can't find a home for some others. I've got a detailed radar mast, for example, but can't find a ship missing one. I'm wondering if I lost it years ago, and found it when I was cleaning up.

 

Bob,
After reading your posts immediately following your disaster, I was hoping you would not give up on your RR. It is with great pleasure that I read your update and knew you had rebuilt it. So glad to see how nice it looks and to know that you made it thru the adversity that befell you. Sure I speak for alot of us here in saying it is a job very well done :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up:

Congrats

 

And ditto for you too Pete

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