Another weekend is over and with it another apology for forgetting to start Friday's thread. This past weekend, I was to attend the St. Louis prototype meet, but once again, thanks to work I had to miss it for the third straight year. As the eternal optimist Cub fans would say, "maybe next year." With just days of running my first ever model airplane show, I have been very busy and as such, trains have taken a back seat. Once September comes, work can start on N scale once again. So how about you? What did you accomplish this weekend? Let us know with a picture or two. We'll come back on Friday the 15th and start the process all over again. Until then, have a great week and... High Greens!
I've been making small bits of progress throughout last week. Friday morning I painted my entire backdrop cloudy "About to have a snow storm" gray, complete with two flocks of geese flying south. Went out of town for the weekend, so last night I got back to work and painted the mountains from the scenery base up to the clouds. The clouds still need some touch-up, might do that this evening. I also need to clean off my railheads and prepare to set up my NCE PowerCab..... oh it never ends, fortunately!
I've been working on the approach track to the liftoff bridge on the "legacy" portion of the layout. I had to elevate the track to get rid of a grade which was OK when it was a siding to the coal loader, but would not be acceptable going to and from the bridge and the staging on the other side. So, I made some changes to the subroadbed, and started to re-work the surrounding terrain with plaster cloth. This picture looks down the approach track and across the bridge. The tracks are not connected, as they need a bit of trimming to length. From the side, I've started to cut the gap for the waterway below the bridge. When I took the picture, I had just taken out enough foam to put the bridge deck in place. This will be a truss bridge, but I'm still working on the superstructure. The deck actually bears all the weight in the model. I also started wiring around the liftoff. I isolated the approach track, and wired it through a plug connecteor that will go to the bridge section. When the bridge is unplugged and removed, the approach track will lose power for protection.
Since my finished attic starting to come along, won't be too much longer before I'm "finally" building my layout. So, I've turned my attention from building up a car fleet to new buildings. While I still have all the buildings from my last Albemarle Division in storage, I'm going to have room for many more. Over the last month I've been chipping away at FSM's "AVRAM'S BAKERY". I've finished the walls and actually got them glued together. Next is the roof, then mounting on a diorama board for eventual positioning on the layout. These are the two buildings w/ the walls glued together over the weekend.
Thanks for posting that picture. I'm planning a "bridge over troubled waters" myself right now, and that's a beautiful example of how it's done.
You're welcome and thank you. I hope you have as much fun building your bridge as I did mine. The "logs" came from my backyard. This was my first O scale structure of any kind. It's hard getting used to the larger size after 40 years of HO scale modeling.
Some great structure work this week. Like the bridge, really fits with the theme. As for the bakery - bagels 10 cents? Can I get a dozen?
Very nicely done on that corner. I need a good rainy weekend to give me a good reason to start up work in the train room again. Heck any reason will do.
