The New Oakville Sub

Well, here I am again, beating the dead horse of Wedding Cake curve - last time, I promise, it's finished now with all the cables and such in place.



Next week - something different.

 

Jim...NOTHING you post is a dead horse...geeeeezzzzzzzzz. I get so many ideas from your posts...I could fill a whole notebook !!

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I really like that effect. Several places even here in Georgia have those slide nets in place. Jamie

 

Thanks, guys! Appreciated!

 

Great work on that wall! The pick-up and driver at the bottom really gives a sense of the sheer height. :thumbs_up:

 

100% better with the cables.. i was driving past some falling rock zone
this past weekend and thought of the cake corner

 

What ground/turf products do you recommend?

 

I've been using the Woodland Scenics flock grass with a Grassmaster...the color is a blend of three grasses...

 

alright

thank you!

 

Jim, WOW is all I can say. It turned out really well and looks awesome. :thumbs_up::thumbs_up:

Brian

 

I, for one, really do like it. It looks like what I think one of these should look as I have never really seen one. Very nice job. :thumbs_up:

 

Thanks all for your comments - while I've not seen anything like this on the prototype, it seems like the kind of thing that could be accomplished, and to me made sense to include the scene. That was also perhaps the longest running project ever on the Sub, maybe eight weeks, not including our fall vacation which fell in the middle of the project - not a bad thing as it gave the joint compound time to completely dry. And I couldn't really show it under construction because it simply wasn't photogenic, so I shot in nearby areas.

 

As promised, something different this week. We begin our tour of The Oakville Sub with a couple shots of the canyon that brings the line out of the central valley and into the Tehachapis (and just conveniently acts as the entry and exit from staging)





Then we pan the camera right and view a broader valley





In the coming weeks we'll follow the line all the way to Oakville...

 

You need some of those Heritage Units!!

They would look excellent on your layout.

 

I would expect the only one that regularly runs there is the SP unit. I've made it a point to NOT buy any one-of-a-kind locos because they tend to be hard to sell as time passes.

 

Great photos and great depth of field. Looks really nice. :thumbs_up:

 

Completely understandable.

 

looking great jim!!!! now add a black loco to the mix:tb-biggrin:

 

Beautiful pics! Don't forget to add some of these to the Great Layouts thread.:thumbs_up: