Superior & Seattle Railroad Build (Volume 2) Started 2/25/17

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jimmillho

Quote from: ACL1504 on June 21, 2019, 06:24:02 PM
John,

Wow, that is going to be a great yard, What am I saying, it is a great looking yard.

Well done my friend.

Tom ;D

I have to agree with Tom.  Very well done.  8) 8) 8) 8)

Jim

S&S RR

Quote from: ACL1504 on June 21, 2019, 06:24:02 PM
John,

Wow, that is going to be a great yard, What am I saying, it is a great looking yard.

Well done my friend.

Tom ;D


Tom


Thank you for stopping by and the kind words. I have been putting a lot of hours in trying to get this yard operational.  I should get to the electrification part next week.
John Siekirk
Superior & Seattle Railroad

S&S RR

Quote from: PRR Modeler on June 21, 2019, 07:04:00 PM
You're doing really nice work and the yard will be huge.


Curt




Thank you for the complements and yes this yard will be capable of holding a lot of rolling stock. It will be the center of activity during operation sessions.
John Siekirk
Superior & Seattle Railroad

S&S RR

Quote from: mark dalrymple on June 21, 2019, 07:28:24 PM
Between yard work and yard work there can't be much time left in the day!

Looking very impressive, John.

Cheers, Mark.


Mark


You are correct, my two yard projects are keeping me busy.  This year we are having record rain fall so the nice days outside have been few and far between.  My outside projects are backed up about 8 weeks.  I had the house painted and a sliding door installed last week.  I hope to get to staining my deck this coming week.  As soon as we get some summer like weather my yard time is going to take away from my yard building time, for a few weeks.
John Siekirk
Superior & Seattle Railroad

S&S RR

Quote from: jimmillho on June 21, 2019, 08:15:20 PM
Quote from: ACL1504 on June 21, 2019, 06:24:02 PM
John,

Wow, that is going to be a great yard, What am I saying, it is a great looking yard.

Well done my friend.

Tom ;D

I have to agree with Tom.  Very well done.  8) 8) 8) 8)

Jim


Jim


Thank you for stopping by the thread and the complement. I sure have burned through a lot of cork roadbed, flex track and turnouts on this project.
John Siekirk
Superior & Seattle Railroad

S&S RR

Here is a picture of the North End of Superior Yard with a little less clutter on top of the benchwork.  I have a few holes to fill and then it will be on to the South End of the yard.


John Siekirk
Superior & Seattle Railroad

Dennis Bourey

Dennis Bourey
dpbourey@comcast.net

Lake's Region RR
(Happy Modeling)

S&S RR

Quote from: S&S RR on February 26, 2017, 09:12:29 PM

Index Updated 6/22/19.

                          INDEX


Volume 1
See post above on page 1



Volume 2

Vol 2. Page 1    Adding trees to the mountains.
Vol 2. Page 2    Using a Mortar & Pestle to create fine sand.
Vol 2. Page 3    Mountain Surgery
Vol 2. Page 4    Clay mockup of Phase III.
Vol 2. Page 5    Phase III Expansion
Vol 2. Page 6    Straightening the curves
Vol 2. Page 7    New Pine Trees
Vol 2. Page 8    Phase III track work
Vol 2. Page 9    More Aspen Trees
Vol 2. Page 10  Making Aspen Trees
Vol 2. Page 12  New Crew member
Vol 2. Page 14  Test planting of Aspen Trees
Vol 2. Page 16  Test running the trains
Vol 2. Page 17  Helix build
Vol 2. Page 18  The HOn3 Branchline
Vol 2. Page 19  New HOn3 Locomotive
Vol 2. Page 20  Using my iPad to design the scenery
Vol 2. Page 21  Start of the Mackenzie Milling Build
Vol 2. Page 27  Start of the Isaac's Coal Build
Vol 2. Page 33  Running trains with the expanded crew
Vol 2. Page 35  Continued work on Mackenzie Mill and Isaac's Coal
Vol 2. Page 44  Adding another layer of scenery with some new Pine Trees
Vol 2. Page 53 Isaac's Coal test plant
Vol 2. Page 54 Mackenzie Mill Build continued
Vol 2. Page 55 Locomotive Works build initial planning
Vol 2. Page 56 Isaac's Coal detailing
Vol 2. Page 58 Isaac's Coal on the layout
Vol 2. Page 59 Mackenzie's Mill detailing
Vol 2. Page 60 Clean workbenches
Vol 2. Page 61 Locomotive Works starting the build
Vol 2. Page 63 Future build planning
Vol 2. Page 66 Locomotive Works Roof mockup
Vol 2. Page 68 Locomotive Works Building the walls
Vol 2. Page 70 Painting Detail Castings
Vol 2. Page 73 Locomotive Works the layout site
Vol 2. Page 74 Locomotive Works painting the wall castings
Vol 2. Page 75 Locomotive Works starting the interior details
Vol 2. Page 77 Locomotive Works coloring the wall castings
Vol 2. Page 79 Locomotive Works the roof construction
Vol 2. Page 80 Monster Model Works brick tower
Vol 2. Page 82 Locomotive Works Inspection Pits
Vol 2. Page 83 Locomotive Works Brick Floor
Vol 2. Page 86 Locomotive Works Roof test fit
Vol 2. Page 87 Locomotive Works Overhead Crane installation
Vol 2. Page 90 Locomotive Works more interior details
Vol 2. Page 95 Mackenzie's Mill back on the details
Vol 2. Page 96 Locomotive Works interior lighting
Vol 2. Page 97 Locomotive Works coloring the metal roofing
Vol 2. Page 99 Locomotive Works more interior details
Vol 2. Page 102 Locomotive Works starting the exterior details
Vol 2. Page 103 More lighting for the layout
Vol 2. Page 105 Mackenzie's Mill Pond
Vol 2. Page 107 Planting more trees on the layout
Vol 2. Page 108 Using a mortar and pestle for grinding dirt fine
Vol 2. Page 110 Locomotive Works LED lighting
Vol 2. Page 112 Locomotive Works interior lighting test
Vol 2. Page 115 Layout Expansion
Vol 2. Page 117 More Aspen Trees on the layout
Vol 2. Page 118 Start of the Threadwell's build
Vol 2. Page 120 Threadwell's  site planning
Vol 2. Page 123 Ipad mockup of the Threadwell site plan
Vol 2. Page 124 New resin walls for the build
Vol 2. Page 125 Starting the build on the workbench
Vol 2. Page 126 New pictures of the finished area of the layout
Vol 2. Page 128 More Details for the Locomotive Works build
Vol 2. Page 131 New Engineer on the S&S RR
Vol 2. Page 133 First structure build for my Grandson
Vol 2. Page 136 Expansion Plans for the S&S RR
Vol 2. Page 137 LED lighting for the Threadwell build
Vol 2. Page 138 Adding water to the Threadwell build
Vol 2. Page 140 Threadwell build moved to the layout
Vol 2. Page 141 More Trees
Vol 2. Page 142 Sewall's build start
Vol 2. Page 143 Adding the signs to the Locomotive Works
Vol 2. Page 144 Threadwell build photographs after adding the scenery
Vol 2. Page  146 More layout pictures
Vol 2. Page 148  Design plans discussion
Vol 2. Page 149 Baseboard for Sewall's and Fox Run builds
Vol 2. Page 150 Finishing the turntable area in front of the Stone Roundhouse
Vol 2. Page 152 First locomotives on the Eagles Nest turntable
Vol 2. Page 153 Scenery work around the Stone Roundhouse
Vol 2. Page 154 Draft Layout diagrams for the Phase IV Expansion
Vol 2. Page 155 Servo Turnout Controls
Vol 2. Page 156 The Phase IV Expansion begins
Vol 2. Page 157 Moving furniture and the Phase IV base cabinets
Vol 2. Page 158 Design Changes for the Superior Yard
Vol 2. Page 159 Phase IV construction - the helix
Vol 2. Page 161 Walter P. visits the S&S RR
Vol 2. Page 163 Workshop Expansion
Vol 2. Page 164 Benchwork on the Phase IV expansion
Vol 2. Page 165 The table top of the lower level of the the Phase IV expansion
Vol 2. Page 166 Using lasers to keep the track straight
Vol 2. Page 167 The Phase IV track work begins
Vol 2. Page 169 Design Changes
Vol 2. Page 170 Control Panel Build
Vol 2. Page 172 The North Yard Construction
Vol 2. Page 174
John Siekirk
Superior & Seattle Railroad

S&S RR

I updated the index to volume 2 of this build thread, tonight.  This thread is getting close to the maximum number of pages (200).  I will be closing it and starting Volume 3 in the next few weeks.
John Siekirk
Superior & Seattle Railroad

S&S RR

Quote from: DennisBourey on June 22, 2019, 08:53:13 PM
John, This is looking Great!!!!!!!!!!

Dennis


Dennis


Thank you for the compliment. It will look a lot better with some ballast and full of rolling stock.  It will be awhile before I add the ballast.  I want to get a lot of run time in on it to see if any changes are required before I ballast the track.
John Siekirk
Superior & Seattle Railroad

PRR Modeler

Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
Freelanced PRR Bellevue Subdivision

S&S RR

John Siekirk
Superior & Seattle Railroad

postalkarl

Hey John:

It's coming along quite nicely. Keep da pics a flowin. I love seeing what you are doing.

Karl

S&S RR

Quote from: postalkarl on June 23, 2019, 11:27:51 AM
Hey John:

It's coming along quite nicely. Keep da pics a flowin. I love seeing what you are doing.

Karl


Karl


Thank you for following along - I try to take a picture or two every few days.
John Siekirk
Superior & Seattle Railroad

S&S RR

I mentioned that my side project was pouring castings for the brick roundhouse that is going to be in the corner by the window in the Superior Yard. Here is a picture of the casting production. I'm making enough castings for 15 stalls - I have some layout work to do before I start the build.  I'm pouring the castings now, while I had the casting materials out - the build of this project is sometime in the future.


John Siekirk
Superior & Seattle Railroad

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