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Merry Christmas

-Mike

From My Workbench

As the plans that I posted suggests, I have completed 3 of the 6 scratch built structures required for my Master Model Railroader Structure Certificate. For more information check out the plans that were used in an earlier post... And here they are;









Southern Pacific Main Line Tender Oil Storage Tank.

Completely scratch built using a PVC pipe union believe it or not.
I covered the union with plascticstruct, constructed the legs painted
and weathered.

The Pumphouse... complete with interior....

These were real challenges particularly in the interiors, in this case
everything is built from scratch with the exception of the steam

engine (click on all of these pics for larger view).




Grizzly Flats Station.... (this was a lot of fun)... really tested my skills and almost an exact recreation of the South Pacific RR in Ann Arbor California around 1943. The interior is complete right down to the toilet paper roll and newspapers, the world war II theme is seen throughout.












The roof rafters alone consumed well over 200 nut bolt washer castings. I went a step beyond and added conduit and electrical boxes and switches, also the interior is lit with 5 0603 LEDs







This was a fun set of structures, hopefully if all goes well I will have the remaining 3 structures completed by this time next month...

Top 50 List

I was very pleased to have my blog named a "50 Best Blogs for Train Enthusiasts” at http://onlineengineeringdegrees.org/50-best-blogs-for-train-enthusiasts/ A list generated by Edgar Lovett. It was really cool to be listed among some really amazing blogs. If you get a chance check out the list that he has offer, but I warn you, there is tons of Railroad related sites that you will spend days looking through...

Thanks Edgar, I am humbled...