Today's Progress on the ACTRR

Thanks Bob, today I am working on the two turnouts in the yard.
Mike

 

Mike the Layout looks great

 

Those cabooses are getting really close to the edge now...

 

I Will. Between the caboose tracks and the bridge over the river there will be a curved Icing rack and building , plus a small yard office at the caboose track for incoming crews and outgoing cabeese. Here is the latest from yesterday. I got the turnouts in the yard and added feeders to help with switching reliablity.









Thanks , Mike

 

New Structure for the ACTRR

Here is what can be done to the ,ever popular and usually free, Bachmann coaling tower. I moved the staircase , added bracing to base, made handrails (won't do that again), modified coal chute, added cables and rings and weights, and builders in scale tin roofing. A considerable amount of work to make a structure the ACTRR will soon schedule for destruction due to dieselization.







Mike

 

Nice job Mike....

 

Thanks guys tomorrow I should be able to post pics of it , the new cattle pen and the caboose tracks done.
Thanks , Mike

 

Cool keep the pics coming looking very good!!!

 

Here is some progress on the ACT. These are of the finished Cattle Pen and the coaling tower in place as well as the two caboose tracks and yard turnouts ballasted.










Mike

 

A great looking layout! I like what you have done to make the Bachmann coal tower look so much better - but how does coal get up into the tower? Please don't take this question the wrong way - it's just that I use the Bachmann towers on my layout (well, only two so far) and coal towers need to have a track running under or on the backside to dump coal so that the conveyer along the back of the tower can load coal into the tower. Since you framed in the tower, how about a road leading up to the back to a pit to dump truck loads of coal into?

 

You got it! That is what happens here. There was already an access road there and it will now serve the tower by truck.



Mike

 

WOW, neat coaling tower!!!

 

Here is my new project. This is a JL Innovations Brookside Ice House kit with a scratch built curved ice dock to fit the lead-in to the yard. I'll post more pics later on.







Mike

 

Here is the Ice House almost done less window glazing and figures.I may mount it tomorrow.








Thanks , Mike

 

Awesome work Mike!

Ben

 

I can only hope my scenic work is half as good.

I appreciate your sharing with us here on TB.

 

Mike,

AMAZING work! When I get my layout up and running (time and money constraints), I hope I can do a quarter-a-good of a job that you do. Great work!