10/6/18 Layout Update, Search light signals working and CTC Signal System Complete

Looks great.  Maybe you can help me with the steel mill painting.

Buzz

Great work Mike, the crane, like the rest of your layout, is fabulous. Thanks for taking us along on your layout journey. Keep up the good work. Rich

Amazing Progress  mike!!!

All I can say is WOW!

Incredible work!

 

Keep the pics coming!

 

Peter

I agree with everyone else, Beautiful work.  Nick 

Thanks for the nice comments.  Pictures with crane in place on the layout.

 

Mike

 

Still lots left on the harbor scene.  I have not decided between making my own barge from scratch or buying a kit.  I also wanted to have a building to house a boiler for the crane, but do not have a clear direction on it.  For now, harbor is done enough and moving onto the next project.

 

Here is a project my wife and I have been working on.  I am running out of real estate, but still have a corner to use for a barn scene.   We designed the barn from scratch based on a real picture from the internet.  My wife cut, stained, assembled, and painted it from bass wood.  With its proximity to the track, these animals will not be sleeping much.  Hope to have some more progress of this area in coming weeks.

 

Mike

 

 

 

Excellent job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow Mike, more great railroad modeling, I think from my view of your expertise the shadowy background is starting to reveal your able assistant, er girl Friday, no, master designer, no, acclaimed architect, no, Chief engineer, and tour de force wonder woman of the layout! Excellent work! You guys make quite the team. Great job and well done to both of you. Rich

Mike, 

 

The crane makes an excellent addition to your layout. Great scene! 

 

Andy

Sooooooo nice! Love it.

Looks just great! Did your wife use leather dye and isopropyl alcohol for the stain?

Just beautiful !

Yes Alan,

Wood was stained with the leather die and alcohol.

Mike

I decided on building the barge myself instead of buying a kit. 

I completed it for less than $15 dollars total (wood and spray primer/scratch filler).  Already had the ballast and paint colors on hand from other projects.  Plenty of wood left over for the future service barge used for the dragline.

1st barge, made from scratch out of MDF and basswood. 

Very Nice! I have to make one too!

Great work Mike, just beautiful. Rich

Its been a while since I have been able to show some progress, with the holidays and other house items that needed to be taken care.  Last weekend, my wife and I had sometime to work on her barn scene some more and this weekend I cleaned up a few other areas on the layout.

Here is the barn scene, we decided to hold off on the roof and framing the window for now, to instead complete the scenery.




Here is a picture of the barge I was working on.  I have so much more I would like to do with this scene in the future, including an additional dredge, more detailed tie on's for the barge and steam house for supply the crane


I weathered up my oil pumper with chalks and added some additional scenery around it to hide the base of the unit.  I think it came it out really nice.




I also had a gas station area I was working on.  I combined this with a track maintenance crew, who needed to remove a crossing to complete their work.  I still need to find some cross bucks for it.

Wow..

Sorry, I was late barging into this thread

 

 

 

 

Great job, Mike!

 

Peter

Very nice scenery.

I think the fantastic work you do in the US, I go crazy here in Brazil!

Thank you for posting these pictures!

Great looking layout.  Wonderful scenery.  

Mike, it is looking very good!  I like the barn a lot!