The Railroad

Once again I’m updating by reposting my Railroad-Line posts:

From 12/21/07 - After a two month break while I concentrated on getting trains running on my layout I’m back to the Mills. I got the boathouse put together. Just need to do the roof and the dock for it and add some more weathering. I notice in the last picture that front corner looks like it has a gap, it doesn’t look like that in person.

12/24/07 - I built the sawdust conveyor over the weekend:

From 12/26/07 -Here’s the slab bin:

It still amazes me a little that I start with a pile of sticks and end up with a nice little structure like this. This kit is giving me a huge amount of confidence about things I might be able to do in the future as far as scratch building.

From 12/30/07 - In the last couple of days I finished the log brow, the tool shed and the donkey shed. The sheds were a nice change as they are tiny compared to most of the other assemblies! The tool shed roof goes on later, after the details are inside and the donkey shed roof gets tarpaper later on in the process as well.

I got a good start on the sorting platform but I ran out of the decking material. Brett is sending some more right out. No matter what the reason for running out Brett would of course take care of it. He’s saying that he must have packed too little in the kit but given how meticulous the rest of this kit is I’m assuming I just botched it somehow. In any case I’m going to move on to the transfer table while I wait.

From 12/31/07 -The structural work is mostly complete and I’ve moved on to the machinery. Today I built the log haul. I just need to add some castings to it tomorrow:

After building this and the sawdust conveyor I’ve got a lot more confidence about the trestle I’m going to be building in the future. This kit is like a university education in the process of structure building.

Posted on January 1st, 2008 by quinn
Filed under: The Twin Mills