Here is my scrach, and yes it looks like hen scraching LOL, but someday…however kind of gives you the idea of where Im trying to go with this. Two track on right side will be the wheel area, F3 on drop pit, If I ever find or make a traction motor it will be on the drop pit table, green area is a pit lathe, mount/demount press will be by tread lathe,
I cant believe the hours one ties up in the calling of having fun…LOL Anyhow the shop will be portable to the workbench, and is one of the goals I started this layout, my keddie bridge was the other.
That boxcar behind the shop, thinking of large glass windows in the back wall of the shop, perhaps a forklift?
Well here is mine and I have no intention of trying to make it the best so I dont need the rivits to count, worked there…have my own…LOL,its just a hobby to tinker on…Enjoy…John
The Sublime Mountain Logging Camp’s engine facility is just large enough to house the Climax. The Redikulus mining Company’s engine house is still very much under construction and will service the Shay. The S to R main round house is still only a mock up, but they are fun to build.
Nice photos Lee. If I may ask, what are you using for windows, I like them, Im not sure what Im going to do with mine yet. I wish I had the room for a turntable, WP had a 17 stall r/house, burned down in the lake 70s
Your inbound lead is fantastic, scenerio is right on. Your sand tower really caught my eye, as well as the fuel stands, did you scrach build them
For windows I took the architectural drawing I made and had the side elevation copied onto clear acetate on a laser printer. After I paint the walls, I’ll just cut them out and install them. In N scale, the printing will suffice to represent the fine steel grid that makes up the window panes.
The sand tower was cobbled together using a G-scale milk can, a couple of Plastruct trusses and some old handrail material from a Bachmann signal bridge.
The fuel racks are Atlas telegraph poles that I trimmed and painted silver, and I used Micro Trains bolster castings for the bases. The hoses are black wires that were cut for DCC decoder installations…
The elevated walkway was made with an old roof walk casting and some Plastruct steps and railing parts. The air compressor is a brake reservoir from an HO freight car…
Hi Art…Loved the Subline logging camp. Ya might want to inform your crew to quit parking the shay’s stack under the overhead of the door, looks like it was just about ready to catch fire LOL. Just one question…where are the spotted owls going to go now, oh yeah…forgot…there were no tree huggers in that time period…LOL
Your roundhouse area base is very impressive. It gives the impression your expanding towards the kitchen LOL…You have a lot of room for in/outbound leads and perhaps a garden. Both you and Lee, makes me want to reconsider a r/house.
Lee…Your sander milk can really cracked me up. There was somthing about that tower that captured my attention. My wife has two old time milk cans on the patio, (I’m not allowed to touch them) now I may make somthinge usefull out of them LOL. If she read his, I would be dead meat!!!
As you, I love scrach building things. While I was removing the wood hole out of my hole saw, I realized they would look decent for a future tread lathe as 8 foot dia chucks. Grabbed some balsa and started whiteling. Following day started tearing out my container area for my shop.
Thanks Lee as you gave me a few ideas to ponder over…John
Ryan…Your roof really sets the building off and made me want to see inside. Wondering if you pressed tinfoil for it?? The doors in different positions is great as well as the inside of the shop. Mine will be sort of like yours with the framed roof structure, if I ever get that far LOL
I served my apprintiship in an old roundhouse, kinda like yours. Great Job, brought me a few few memorys, Thanks for sharing and that backdrop looks pretty cool. …John
That’s a really nice Roundhouse there guy… I’m going a bit more modern on my layout, kinda like what you would see at the Lexington yard…(when you could still get within a mile of the place I mean [swg] ) But NS still makes use of many of the old steam era engine facilities…so you are certainly within prototype.
Thanks! It is an old Suydam metal kit that my dad and I built over 30+ years ago and I kept it stored away for about 25. I has been renovated and “modernized” a bit both in the story and in modeling technique. I was trying to capture the essense of it having been an old Southern RH and now NS has taken over and brought it up to date as much as plausible and uses it for minor loco engine shop repairs.
John,
To answer your question the roof was made with corrugated card stock that I bought at Michael’s Arts and Craft store. It is the black corr. paper in 8-1/2"X11" sheets which run about $0.90 each. Then I spray painted it with the silver metal paint. Then I cut the individual sheets an HO scale 4’X12’ and glued them individually to the original red cardstock roof. The cardstock might be a bit large but I like the way it looks and gives more of an industrial roof material appearance than doing the pressed foil technique. But, that’s just me! [:-^]
This is the small engine service facility in our Linwood Yard. Since it only services the local power that works out of the yard and some road power that lays over, we didn’t need a big shop building. The shop is just big enough to perform the running repairs, any big jobs go to the big shops in Roanoke.
We haven’t finished all the background scenery yet, we have some backdrop stuff and some trees to do yet.
This is a 2-stall engine house I picked up on eBay. I think it’s an IHC. I hadn’t done any scenery at all at the time, and even the Bowser trolley in the picture wasn’t painted yet.
It will probably serve as a car barn for the trolleys, but it may be used for other short locos as well. The interior walls are cinderblock (downloaded image to card stock, glued to the walls) and the floors are hydrocal castings to look like concrete. I’ve got some machine-shop tools in there, too. One day I’ll get around to lighting it.
I used a short Peco Wye turnout right in front of the car barn. I think it’s interesting trackwork that way, rather than a standard turnout.
no intention of trying to make it the best so I dont need the rivits to count, worked there…have my own…LOL,its just a hobby to tinker on…Enjoy…John
