General Discussion (Model Railroader)

Fantastic job SilverSpike. I am watching closely since I will be starting my turntable/roundhouse after the holidays. I don't think I will be buying ten inspection pits at $16.50 each. I guess I will build them myself.

I am doing a lot of thinking on the elevations for roundhouse floor so it will line up with the outside yard and turntable height. I might try the Stryene strips.

Keep up the good work, Doc 

Topcopdoc,

Glad you like the series. My next steps will be to paint and weather the roof once all the masking tape shingles are applied to all the roof sections. Then I am going to clean and re-paint the roundhouse structure and then weather it also. The plan is to attach the strip magnets to the underside of the roofing cardstock so that it will keep a relative tight grip to the structure, but also be able to be lifted off for better interior and detail viewing.

Then I will start building all the little details that will surround the interior of the structure and exterior of the surrounding grounds.

Cheers,

Ryan

Dave,

The Stewart Hobbies Inspection Pits are in stock again at Walther's. When I purchased my 6 awhile ago that depleated the then current supply, glad to see that they have some more in stock again.

Thanks for the comments, and I will continue to post updates both here and on my website too. Here is the link to my Roundtable and Roundhouse Renovation page.

Cheers,

Ryan

Ryan,

This is really turning out to be quite the impressive project!  Really nice!

Thanks Philip!

Here is an initial interior image I took with the roof removed and the POV from outside one of the windows. Note: the window frames and panes have been removed for renovations.

Cheers,

Ryan

if I had a vote I would go for the 64 pane window.

Lee

Ryan - impressive work you've done! My vote would probably be the 16 pane windows, I'd figure that the RR comptroller wouldn't want to pay the glazier's hourly rate to install 64 pieces of glass, but would think the four pane version could be costly to replace those bigger pieces of glass if/when one got cracked/broken later. Just my , though...

Jim in Cape Girardeau 

TA462 wrote:

I like the 64 pain window as well.

64 pane has my vote. Excellent Job Ryan!

Fergie

Ryan,

When first looking at your windows, I thought the 64 pane window looked too busy.  But then I got to thinking about maintenance.  Usually cleaning wasn't that big a deal, but glass replacement might have been.

The cast of replacing a single pane would be the same, labor wise, but the cost of the glass would be less for the smaller panes.  I would think the RR would go for the smaller panes.

Just my opinion.

PS.  Great idea using a spreadsheet to scale the windows, I've done that with signs for decals, but never thought of it for windows.

Did you consider 9 panes ?

Hobo, never did considerd a 9 pane option! Hummmmm...back to the drawing board!

Actually, thanks guys for your input and considerations on the window pane options. So far the 64 pane option seems to be the majority selection. And for structures from this period that seems to be the standard size. I have even seen renovated structures such as warehouses that had the windows reconditioned and maintained the same small pane configuration.

And it makes sense with replacement costs on smaller panes, but on that note a few Safety First signs around the interior and exterior walls might help prevent any future accidents with pipes or lumber and such. Going to have to print up a few of these:

Cheers,

Ryan