"From Eugene to Florence"; Southern Pacific on the Coos Bay branch

[Ronald48]

Yep! Beautiful weather today

[Ronald48]

Today I went outside to join the modules. That has to be done good so that all lines up well.

 

At first the right two modules. I set them up:

 

20160613_134826 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

First I did the back and bvolted them together with 6 mm bolts:

 

20160613_140713 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Then I did the underside:

 

20160613_140718 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160613_140940 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And one in the front:

 

20160613_141606 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Me at work, made by my wife:

 

20160613_155521 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And all together:

 

20160613_155856 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

There was still one module with a too high top valance. That had to go now:

 

20160613_160346 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And straight!:

 

20160613_160629 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Later more!

[NickBrad]

I really love your woodworking skills, seeing them broken down and explained like this makes me more confident about going this route in future.

[Ronald48]

I started the legs today. For that I use the set of my 0N30 layouy Lake Louisa who was on the Warley show in 2014. It contains of 4 wide legs and 2 small ones. The latter are now coupled. I made these in a way I always can use the again for their original layout.

 

The first set:

 

20160614_110812 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160614_111342 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

I make a sort of adapterplate that fits the current modules:

 

20160614_130007 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Because I need a flat floor to set things up i used the livingroom today:

 

20160614_130941 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

First the double set that will be mounted in the middle so that it provides some extra stability:

 

20160614_131944 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

After mounting the 2nd set it is time for stability between the legs::

 

20160614_132813 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And there is part 1 on its feet:

 

20160614_141020 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

 

20160614_141047 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And after some hard work the 2nd part fits the first::

 

20160614_155632 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160614_160007 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Some extra strength:

 

20160614_161249 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

I did some experimenting with the layout and settle for this:

 

20160614_165900 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And at the right side (between the piece of wood and the drawbridge will be the right CV bridge):

 

20160614_165404 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

One of the backside:

 

20160614_181500 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

I finished the corners with a special profiled piece of wood:

 

20160614_191014 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Left corner:

 

20160614_191307 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Right corner:

 

20160614_191254 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

A 5-year old can hide in one module :

 

20160614_193734 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

After breaking down this is what is left, and this is also the starting point when setting up these 4 modules:

 

20160614_193852 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The layout!:

 

20160614_194224 - kopie by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Later more!

 

 

[Ronald48]

I was already editing it, Simon. It is now readable English

[Ronald48]

And on it went.

 

I orderd the first big stuff from Germany:

 

20160706_170532 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160706_170513 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

I started the bridge first. Inside the box:

 

20160706_201836 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

First the base:

 

20160706_202033 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The parts:

 

20160706_203426 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The base contains 2 parts that has to be joined together:

 

20160706_205447 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And joined together:

 

20160706_211543 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

A Radler beer is good for keeping the stuff together.

 

Sideparts for the side:

 

20160706_212745 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And joined:

 

20160706_213219 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

2 halves together, and joined to see if it fits the base:

 

20160706_220400 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Other side:

 

20160707_191804 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And testfitted to the base:

 

20160707_192408 by Ronald-45, on Flickr..

 

Topside:

 

20160707_194302 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Glued together:

 

20160707_194536 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Girder parts:

 

20160707_202213 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

All parts in place:

 

20160707_212412 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And a test on the table:

 

20160708_105006 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160708_105013 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160708_105024 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Later more!

[TravisM]

Just found this post, looks great.

 

Julian Sprott

[Ronald48]

Oke, more to build. On one side there is a girder bridge. For that I took the new Walthers 70 ft. What's in the box:

 

20160707_214449 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The kit has good detail and is nicely molded. The base part:

 

20160707_215417 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Underside:

 

20160707_215429 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Gluing the edges on the side walls:

 

20160707_220427 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160707_223532 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Base ready sofar:

 

20160708_093553 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Normally now would be the time to glue together the 3 parts and build on from that, I choose to not do this and assemble all 3 parts together when complete, painting then is much easier this way.

6 strips will be glued to the base floor:

 

20160708_093951 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160708_094104 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160708_095954 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Testfit with the open deck:

 

20160708_095954 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The sides get reinforcement triangles:

 

20160708_101514 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The sides are set loose against the base so that all fits nicely and straight:

 

20160708_102007 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160708_102732 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Parts ready for painting:

 

20160708_103916 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And test fitting:

 

20160708_104320 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

This was a few days ago, today out for painting the parts. First layer of black Revell matt nr 8:

 

20160711_142205 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160711_144822 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And iron colour Revell nr 91:

 

20160711_144947 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160711_150958 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

More to come!

[Ronald48]

Just found this post, looks great.

 

Julian Sprott

 

Thank you Julian, much appreciated!

[Ronald48]

My ordered bridge flextrack finally arrived this week:

 

20160713_153347 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160713_153354 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

I also bought some isolatuin plates 5 mm for building my landscape:

 

 

20160713_153424 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

I rearranged the garage so the layout can stand there to build it. Here a test on the ground if all will fit:

 

20160714_114857 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And on its feet:

 

20160714_150522 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

In the background my 4 other exhibition layouts that I own.

 

I chose to build the layout as drawn, this is testfitting on the plywood:

 

DSCN6963 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

DSCN6964 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

DSCN6965 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Drawing the centerlines to determine where to go:

 

DSCN6976 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

This is the idea:

 

DSCN6977 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And where the road will be:

 

DSCN6978 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

After that I started this morning with the paintwork of the modules. The stuff needed:

 

DSCN6979 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Started on the left side:

 

DSCN6980 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And soon on the other side. Ready:

 

DSCN6981 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

DSCN6982 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Later more!

[Ronald48]

After the paint dryed I started with the landscaping. I used at first a 8cm foam plate:

 

DSCN6983 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Cut to fit:

 

DSCN6984 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Formed the plate with sabersaw and knife:

 

DSCN6985 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

DSCN6986 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The mess....:

 

DSCN6987 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And formed:

 

DSCN6988 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Piece of support for track:

 

DSCN6990 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Testfit:

 

DSCN6991 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

I build up the corner with 5 mm XPS:

 

DSCN6992 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

DSCN6993 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Tracksupport testfitted:

 

DSCN6995 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And still loose how it will be:

 

DSCN6996 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

You already can see the form of the Suislaw river. Baseplate is base of river:

 

DSCN6997 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And some stuff to glue all together:

 

DSCN6998 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Later more!

[Ronald48]

And the rest. Gluing the plates:

 

DSCN6999 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

I use bricks to press the plates down while drying:

 

DSCN7000 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Stripes of white glue to seal the edges:

 

. by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Making the road on the other corner:

 

DSCN7003 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Measuring and fitting:

 

DSCN7004 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Making a abutment:

 

DSCN7005 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And gluing it down:

 

DSCN7007 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And the last piece of the left hill:

 

En meer. Pasgemaakte plaatjes insmeren met lijm:

 

DSCN6999 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Ik gebruik stenen om de boel wat aan te persen tijdens het drogen. Gaat trouwens snel, zo rond de 10 a 15 minuten:

 

DSCN7000 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Randje van witte lijm erlangs om de randen te sealen:

 

. by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

De weg maken aan de andere kant:

 

DSCN7003 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Passen en meten:

 

DSCN7004 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Steunmuur maken:

 

DSCN7005 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

En op zijn plek lijmen:

 

DSCN7007 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And the last piece of the left hill:

 

DSCN7008 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

More to cone!!

[Ronald48]

Last update; made the pieces tonight for the drawbridge to get it on the correct highth:

 

DSCN7009 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

2 pieces of 9mm, 1 of 5mm:

 

DSCN7011 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And that looks like this:

 

DSCN7012 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

At right the first 5 mm in landscaping:

 

DSCN7013 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

DSCN7016 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Fitting on the left side of the drawbridge:

 

DSCN7020 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And the situation yesterday evening:

 

DSCN7021 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Later more!

[Ozexpatriate]

It's nice to see this moving along. I will be following with interest.

[Ronald48]

Sunday evening treated the spikeholes in the background and sanded them this morning:

 

20160718_105327 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Cut and glued some foam blocks on the right side:

 

20160718_111736 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160718_120206 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And a overview:

 

20160718_110207 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Later more!

[Ronald48]

Did a test this morning with the bridge on the right side:

 

20160719_113349 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

 

 

20160719_113505 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160719_113538 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Tomorrow i want to see what to do.

 

Later!

[Ronald48]

Today I have a extra day before I do my nightshift at work, so some time can be spend on the layout. Rightside; glued some bridgeshoes provided with the kit:

 

20160720_124717 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And glued in place:

 

20160720_125136 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Determine the heigth:

 

20160720_125706 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Cut out a piece:

 

20160720_130619 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

On top I glue a sort of box where the bridge will fit in:

 

20160720_132238 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And glued and spiked in place. On the other side I fitted a support wall:

 

20160720_134351 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Making a piece of roadbed out of thin plywood:

 

20160720_140733 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And cut out and glued in place:

 

20160720_141722 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And with a temporary support it looks this way now:

 

20160720_144714 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160720_153336 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Leftside; took away the thick roadbed and made a new thinner one. The height is now the same on both sides:

 

20160720_145738 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160720_153316 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

A usefull afternoon! Later more!

[Ronald48]

This it will be:

 

20160720_204517 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

[Ronald48]

Oke, it goes on. Today I started with the pylons:

 

20160722_162005 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

These are the parts of the Walthers kit nr 933-4552:

 

20160722_162147 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

On the back these parts have lines so that you can cut them to fit in heigth. The first pylon:

 

20160723_123650 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And glued together:

 

20160723_124457 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

On one short side it gets a sharp cornerpiece. This is not prepared for shortening so I had to cut it myself:

 

20160723_134634 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And glued:

 

20160723_134849 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

To get to the correct highth I had to shim it with a piece of 6 mm wood:

 

20160723_135655 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160723_140427 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

To get everything aligned correctly I glued the shoes to the bridge:

 

20160723_140930 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The second pylon had to be a little longer so i made a jig on a piece of wood:

 

20160723_141146 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Alignement with the drawbridge:

 

20160723_141442 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

For the bigger pylonpieces the same procedure on the piece of wood:

 

20160723_141813 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Cut:

 

20160723_141909 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And gently breaking the piece:

 

20160723_142109 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And ready:

 

20160723_170613 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And overview of the right part:

 

20160723_144339 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160723_170937 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

See through:

 

20160723_144325 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And a test to see if the wooden trestle will fit:

 

20160723_190435 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160723_190447 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

More to come!

[autocoach]

Send your story and pix to Joe Fugate the editor/publisher of the Model Railroad Hobbyist e-magazine. He might publish them.  He models the same ex SP line though in a basement size empire. 

[Ronald48]

Thanks Ken. I will consider it.

 

Today I modified the bridge drive. It has as-is one microswitch provided in the pylon under the bridge. The intention is to mount the second one in one of the 2 bridge pylons. But; I don't want that, my idea is that it is better to have both under the bridge.

So, first I soldered the stuff together as per kit instructions:

 

20160725_195824 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

For the second switch there is a mount provided in the kit that you can attach to one of the kit pylons. But I do not use these. So I used the mount, attached the microswitch up-side-down and glued it 90 degrees apart from the other switch:

 

20160725_200416 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Not totally straight, I did this so that the 2 small heads of the bolts 9from the mount) do not touch the large gear of the bridge:

 

20160725_200431 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160725_200502 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

To prove that it works a small test in the kitchen:

 

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And a test on the layout itself. The movement is controlled by me with a small power pack, the unregular speed you hear is done by me:

 

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I'm happy with it!

[Ronald48]

Today I got the second shipment from RD-hobby Germany. it contains a second bridge, pilons and trestle:

 

20160727_152536 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

After dinner I started building the pilonset. Same procedure:

 

20160727_184550 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Looks like this:

 

20160727_190910 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Number 3 and 4:

 

20160727_193606 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And overview with all 4 needed pilons:

 

20160727_194900 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Later more!

[Ronald48]

And it goes on. Started building the second bridge today while watching F1 qualifing

 

The kit:

 

20160730_120614 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Started with the deck parts:

 

20160730_124733 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And glued together:

 

20160730_131111 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

With endpieces:

 

20160730_133059 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Sidepieces made out of 4 pieces:

 

20160730_140342 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And glued together:

 

20160730_141723 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Then the top, formed out of 2 pieces and glued together on a flat surface:

 

20160730_141723 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And with the first reinforcement piece while the seam is still drying:

 

20160730_142106 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

All parts needed:

 

20160730_143909 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

First the parts who have a opening up:

 

20160730_145136 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

So that I can glue in the parts with the middle opening downwards:

 

20160730_145929 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

All subassemblies ready:

 

20160730_150910 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Ans fit together loose (not glued):

 

20160730_152047 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The big moment is there; fitting it on the layout to see what it looks. And it looks very good:

 

20160730_153226 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

 

20160730_153302 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

See through:

 

20160730_153239 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And with opened swingbridge:

 

20160730_153552 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Everything is still not definitive glued together but I'm satisfied with the look.

 

Little movie overview of the layout:

 

 

Later more!

[Ronald48]

Just want to say: thank all for your ratings on my postings. It is well appreciated! Will do my best to make it a good build.

[Ronald48]

Painted the bridges this afternoon. First coat black on the first batch of parts:

 

. by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And black:

 

. by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

This is one bridge in base black colour:

 

DSCN7033 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And bridge nr 2:

 

DSCN7034 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The center base of the swingbridge had to be painted black, took a few A4 papersheets, torn them in half to protect te base from the black paint:

 

DSCN7035 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And painted:

 

DSCN7036 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

DSCN7039 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And all painted parts:

 

. by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Tomorrow they will be painted in iron colour.