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Georgetown & Allen Mountain Railroad 5.0

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 26, 2017 11:21 PM

hon30critter

Michael:

You are sure getting your money's worth out of that laser cutter! Great work!

Dave

 

I can only second Dave´s words! The viaduct and the bridges are great!

I can now fully understand why you dumped your already very much advanced HO scale project.

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 10:54 AM

Sir Madog
I can now fully understand why you dumped your already very much advanced HO scale project.

Yeah, it looks like N scale is more my thing. Should have known better!

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 10:55 AM

I designed the bridge abutments yesterday evening and had the laser cut the parts this morning. Now it starts to look like a bridge!

 

 

 

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 2:47 PM

A little bit of paint...

 

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Posted by JoeinPA on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 4:22 PM

Very nice Michael. What did you use to get the concrete finish on the abutments? It really has an authentic concrete look.

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 5:19 PM

I cut out a piece of roadbed and installed the bridge:

 

 

 

 

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 6:06 PM

It's layers of different paints, spackle, and washes with alcohol/india ink. I can show it in detail if it's of interest, there's a bridge coming on the branch line that will have concrete abutments as well.

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Posted by JoeinPA on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 8:49 PM

I would be interested in seeing your technique and I'm sure others would be interested too.

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Posted by Pruitt on Wednesday, June 28, 2017 5:44 AM
I'd like to see it, too!
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Posted by fender777 on Wednesday, June 28, 2017 6:52 AM
This layout is so long I would need Binoculars to follow those little N gauge trains around.
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Posted by michaelrose55 on Wednesday, June 28, 2017 1:18 PM

fender777
This layout is so long I would need Binoculars to follow those little N gauge trains around.
 

To give you an idea, a freight train will take about one hour for a complete trip around the main line Big Smile

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Thursday, June 29, 2017 4:31 PM

The Allen Mountain area needs many bridges and that really slows me down a bit. Every bridge has to be designed, parts lasered, bridge assembled and painted, bridge installed, before I can continue laying track in any meaningful way.

So here's the next one:

 

 

 

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Friday, June 30, 2017 12:26 PM

Brand new bridge and already heavily rusted!

 

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Friday, June 30, 2017 2:41 PM

Made some progress with this bridge as well:

 

 

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Friday, June 30, 2017 2:59 PM

A coat of dark grey primer:

 

 

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Friday, June 30, 2017 5:32 PM

The first track of the mainline made it across the steel bridge:

 

 

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Posted by rrinker on Friday, June 30, 2017 7:15 PM

 Is the stone pattern in that stone bridge done with the laser cutter as well, or is that a layer of other material applied over the core? 

                                      --Randy

 


Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's

 

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Saturday, July 1, 2017 9:45 AM

rrinker

 Is the stone pattern in that stone bridge done with the laser cutter as well, or is that a layer of other material applied over the core? 

                                      --Randy

 

 

That's all done with the laser Big Smile.

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Posted by rrinker on Saturday, July 1, 2017 1:08 PM

michaelrose55

 

 
rrinker

 Is the stone pattern in that stone bridge done with the laser cutter as well, or is that a layer of other material applied over the core? 

                                      --Randy

 

 

 

 

That's all done with the laser Big Smile.

 

 I'm beginning to think I may want a laser cutter...

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Saturday, July 1, 2017 2:01 PM

rrinker
 I'm beginning to think I may want a laser cutter...                    --Randy

You want one, believe me Big Smile!

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Saturday, July 1, 2017 2:41 PM

All three mainline tracks now run across the bridge and the guardrails have been installed as well:

 

The stone arch bridge has been dry brushed with several different greys and the mortar lines have been filled:

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Sunday, July 2, 2017 10:46 AM

Early this morning I gave the stone arch bridge a coat of thinned white glue to seal everything:

 

Now that the bridge has dried I cut out the roadbed and glued the bridge in place:

 

 

 

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Sunday, July 2, 2017 1:31 PM

I've laid some more main line track:

 

 

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Sunday, July 2, 2017 5:38 PM

I kept laying track until I reached the next station on the mainline:

 

 

 

I then filled the siding with a train to see what will fit in there:

 

 

 

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Monday, July 3, 2017 10:59 AM

I didn't feel like laying track today so I had to find something else to do: I added side walls to my hidden tunnel track so the trains can't fall down if an accident happens.

 

 

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Monday, July 3, 2017 1:22 PM

I started to think about mountains again so with a little hot glue and some leftover wood cut into small pieces I got started behind Gustavsburg:

 

 

 

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Monday, July 3, 2017 3:09 PM

I added the screen wire to shape the mountain:

 

 

 

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Monday, July 3, 2017 5:17 PM

I still had a box of plaster cloth left over from the last G&AM. Took me 2 hours including a coffe break to cover up about 20' of mountain:

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted by hon30critter on Monday, July 3, 2017 10:01 PM

Hi Michael:

I love the mountains, but I have to ask. How are you going to get to that hidden track if you have a derailment in there?

I know that derailments on straight track are rare, but that doesn't mean you couldn't have a derailment on the curves leading to the hidden track which might get dragged quite a way into the tunnel before things fall completely off the track. Murphy's Law.

I think I might have made the mountains so that they can be lifted out. My 2 Cents

Dave

I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!

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Posted by michaelrose55 on Tuesday, July 4, 2017 7:55 AM

hon30critter
I love the mountains, but I have to ask. How are you going to get to that hidden track if you have a derailment in there?

There is enough room to get to the track from underneath. And I don't believe in derailments anyway Wink!

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