Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Ray,That's a great looking wall! Did you use some sort of form to pour the wall in place? Care to share some of your secrets with us? Once again, great work!
Don Z.
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Don Z wrote:Ray,That's a great looking wall! Did you use some sort of form to pour the wall in place? Care to share some of your secrets with us? Once again, great work! Don Z.
RRTrainman wrote: Tom Bryant_MR wrote: Well, this will be different. What happened! You were going along so good. Oh by the way how much dynamite was use to excavate your rolling hill side.
Tom Bryant_MR wrote: Well, this will be different.
Well, this will be different.
What happened! You were going along so good. Oh by the way how much dynamite was use to excavate your rolling hill side.
Dynamite
For the rolling hillside it only took a putty knife working my way under the edge all around. Sections of it I could then pull away. It was only foam, newspaper and paper towels soaked in plaster. There was only a very thin layer of scenery. I salvaged all of the rock work and most of the trees. And I am salvaging all of the TO's and some of the flex.
As far as "going along so good". Yes I agree I was making good progress for the nine months I had in it. But, as I indicated, I started deviating from my plan of having this as a lower level staging only track and started scenery work and was working on some buildings/businesses. Once I had put the first module of the upper deck in place I realized that the distance between the two decks was way too small to enjoy either the scenery or the new operations I was anticipating on this "no-longer-a-staging-only-deck". So, rather than continue on and in the end be saying if I had it over to do again, I bit the bullet and took the axe to it.
I also realized from Don Z that my track work could be much better. I made the mistake of using the rolls of cork one can get from Hobby Lobby and other places. It was a little too thin and each piece had to be custom cut and fitted ... a real PITA for curves.
I am much, much happier with my new plan. It still retains the Taylor yard and I have gained a TT and RH for Smithville which really existed anyway.
This will be better.
Spent some time this evening clearing the ROW for the new track plan. The track you see is all that will remain. And for those who might attempt this - 1) Very hot water will dissolve the glue from any existing scenery/ballast, then simply scrape up with a putty knife, or I used a wet/dry shop vac. 2) A tool called a tile remover made quick work of scraping off any left over cork, glue, hot glue etc.
New plan is in my SIG.
Regards,
Tom