Utacolzona Railroad in On30 (2020 - 2022) Update 6/25/22

Fabulous craftsmanship Dennis'.. Excellent and interesting layout'...Nice'..👍✔

Thank you, Ted.

Sunday, 4-24-2022
Viewed from the roof on the Utacolzona Hotel we see the creator of Utacolzona & URR.

Thanks for looking.  Dennis.

Dennis,

  Excellent craftsmanship there, my friend.

Tom

Sunday, 5-1-22

Getting in that last round of checkers as the sun goes down.

Ready to dump the last load of coal.

Thanks for looking.
Dennis

Sunday  5-8-2022

Before and after.

Sunday  5/15/22

Threading the dangerous downhill coming into town.

Utacolzona is a busy place!

With everyone busy, the boss decided to take a nap.

Pushing full coal loads to the chutes.

Hauling & dumping coal.

This is just awesome! I can't believe how much detail there is. This is also a really great thread! Thank you for sharing every step along the way

Dennis,

  I relooked at all your posts and I need to once again say you have done some amazing work. Wow.

  Glad to know I could tap into the work of someone who is able to successfully channel his "Inner John Allen." Please keep these previously hidden talents handy when I need help with my next layout!

  Excellent work my friend. Very proud of you!

Tom

Recently a fellow OGR modeler requested a tutorial on how I made the guide rails (or guard rails).

It really is simple and I did not take pictures of the construction but here are some shots of a post I used for a starter.

This post was short because the part going into the foam was not factored in at this point.  I figured how high I wanted the post then cut all the rest longer as I needed.  The posts are 3/16 dia. wooden dowels and the holes for the cable (string) are 1/16 dia.

I painted the post white and then painted the yellow tops after the white was dry.  I used a stretchy necklace string for the cable.  This is the same string I used for the power lines on the poles.  I dirtied it up just a little with thinned black paint as I did not want it too shiny.
I laid out the posts to figure out how far apart I needed them and drilled holes into the foam... carefully by hand.  Foam will tear when drilling so this process is slow.
Before installing the posts I strung the two rows in all the posts.  This was a bit tedious as the thread & holes were a close fit.  I did not want the holes too big as they would not look correctly.  I set all the posts in the foam with yellow carpenters glue and when dry, I pulled the string so it was fairly straight and ran it into the "ground" at both ends.  That's it.

Dennis,

  Very nice, but what material is the actual post made from? I see you said 3/16 but is it just a wooden dowel?

  Thanks for posting.

Tom