Highway overpass & Town project on the Longmont Terminal & Northern

Watch out for that old bearded guy, he likes UP, C&S, CB&Q, AT&SF, CRI&P, GW and D&RGW.  Depends only on which way the wind blows.

ChipR

Very nice.

It looks really, really good. Can't wait to see it finished.........this afternoon.

Malcolm

I agree. This overpass looks very good. Excellent work!

Looks great. Fit the space nicely and you executed the construction masterfully!

Nice bridge, nice curve and nice UP train!

well done Erik. the guardrails are nice!

Looking good.  Mine is no where near finished.

George

They look like Crow River to me.

George

Love how that turned out. Thanks for sharing.

Hi Erik,

Is that a 61 Chevy Bubble Top coupe in your earlier pix!

Awesome!

Bill

nice progress Erik.

your use of HO railings on the bridge is similar to my use of HO products in my recent cement plant build. storage tanks and power transformers.

I can't help but wonder about the lack of any guardrail on the outside perimeters of the layout. We've installed 3" strips of doorskin material on all of our areas where the trackwork is close to the edge and without protection from trains going off into thin air and the subsequent result of gravity.

Looks great, enjoying the progress pictures.  

Eric,

I just saw this thread!  The bridge and highway are turning out great!  Thanks for posting!

 I posted before that the guys who haul the stuff in and out of shows are what keeps the hobby growing into the future. It's pretty thankless job that is a huge sacrifice of time, effort, talent, $$, etc.

 Watching the young kids faces at some shows, is what will determine if they are hooked! There's magic in them trains I tell 'ya.

Hi Erik,

The first thing that hits my brain when I see your stuff is the high quality of the photography -- before I even get into the content.  

HOW DO YOU DO THAT?

Camera type?  Real photography using f stops and shutter speeds and focal lengths and specialize lighting?  What?  

HELP ME.    Lift the veil of ignorance from the great unwashed..

Dirty up that tanker on the bridge, and it would look like the tanker in the 1971 Dennis Weaver movie 'Duel', directed by Stephen Spielberg.

Well I did not know the heritage of the cab or trailer, but I know they were a very common sight when I was growing up.

The photos are superb!  nice work!

Oh yeah Erik, excellent.  Those last pictures sold it.

Thanks for the series.  I'm about to embark on something similar.  Nice to have someone pave the way.

 I remember watching the duel and being scared!

Kind of a joke now.

I must say, I think the color of the sky has too much blue in it. It looks fake.

It was a nice blue sky today

Beautiful sky!! 

Thanks, Erik!!

I'm releaved!  Whew!!!--- I finally sold it to you. 

;-)

 

I have to go through a wall and I think that having the train travel through an overpass would be much more appropriate than entering a tunnel.  The era of your bridge is exactly what I wanted.  I wasn't having much luck finding materials to model it, until I started reading your thread.  Now the Rix Overpass page is on my Top Sites list.  I wouldn't have guessed the HO materials would work.  I don't know if it would have happened without this thread.  Thanks again.

I can see why John is happy, it looks mighty good!

Bob is doing a good job!  I agree, Bob!  

In an era of huge, complex layouts, and in the wake of the regrettable and bummed out ashes of the demise of the Colorado Midland, we see that good modeling rises from the ashes in  a relatively modest modular layout.  Life springs eternal.

Way to go, Erik.

That came together nicely.  I like the final look of the roadway...great stuff.

Saw you guys at the show today.  Looking good!  Who did you anger to get stuck back there?  There was plenty of space out among the inferior scales!  I guess, having displayed at a few shows (60 or 70?) back in my single days, I can appreciate the solitude of a quiet corner!

Like I said, good looking modules and models!  Well done!

Whoa!!!

I thought those SP switchers were Atlas at first.

The second and third unit looks like MP15ACs?? The Atlas are DC's like the first one.

Are those custom or kitbashed or.....MTH shells one Atlas chassis??

Excellent overpass, with first class photos.

Erik,

I've used the Rix pieces as well and, frankly, think size wise look better than the Crow River railings.  Sometimes, actual scale size is too big-- after all, we are creating an illusion. So if it looks right, that's all that matters.

Very nice scene, by the way!

Whoa!! OMI......very nice!!

Gotta love that military train! Wow!

Thanks Rick and Erik.

Looks to me like it has been a good weekend!!!

Great photos Erik. Thanks for sharing the project progress.

Looking good guys see you at the Boulder show

Erie, thanks for posting the videos and the progress of the overpass....You did an excellent job....Do you know the curve diameter that your friend has on his layout....I see that he ran 80' flatcars...

Thanks Dennis

Thanks Erik.

I've lived in Denver and Ft Collins and Durango and graduated from CSU.  Your pictures and videos of the modular layout and the activities at Tim's -- and on top of all this good stuff -- having the best model railroad store in the known civilized universe, Caboose Hobbies -- are making me want to come back to the Front Range.  Now if I can just convince my wife!!

Is there any realistic hope that the Colorado Midland will be resurrected in any reasonable timeframe?

What brand is the black ABBA set of Rio Grande F units?  My guess is Atlas O?

Is there any realistic hope that the Colorado Midland will be resurrected soon?

Erik, Maybe I asked the wrong question before.  What camera and type of lighting do you use when rendering those high quality photos of those beautiful individual engines and cars on the COS website and your many posts of same over time?  Certainly not an iPhone as at the meet?

Great stuff on the website.