The Mogollon Railroad

[nachoman]

I've been pushing to get the last few unscenicked areas done. That means the engine house and turntable, the smelter building, and the area around the hotel. The hotel area is scenicked, but I need to finish the structure. The engine house was almost completed, but I needed to finish adding siding to one wall and make a floor. The turntable worked, but the pit was unfinished, and I was not quite happy with the way it looked. I started building up the engine house floor with foam core board.

   

I then printed out a wood floor pattern on paper, and glued it to the foam core. I added some real wood boards between the rails. (sorry for the crappy photo, I had the wrong camera setting).

   

I also didn't like the gallows style turntable I had built, so I made it a deck girder type. The gallows type was just too tall, and looked too dominating next to my selectively compressed buildings. The girder is from an old atlas bridge.

   

And I added siding to the engine house and weathered it some. I still need to add doors and roof details.