Since the majority of my model railraod stuff is out in the garage I have been focusing on things I can work on while in the house. I was going through some of my boxes and came across a building I had started on for a shelf layout at my last house. I have already been playing around with a plan, but had not really put pen to paper and come up with a design. With this challenge I have decided to actually get this project rolling and get it finished!!

The Overview:



Part 1: "Old Shop"
I will be focuing on the existing building and finsihing it, I need to add walls for the small extension on the backside which will be for a shop area, lathes, drill presses, grinders etc. etc. This shop will be the "original" shop which will feature the board by board construction and corrugated metal siding. This shop will service anything that fits through the door, so mainly the smaller dozers, trucks and equipment.

Part 2: "New Shop"
As equipment got bigger a larger shop was needed, so they built a large shop to accomodate the larger equipment. This shop will also be a metal building, and will probably have larger windows to allow for more natural light. I am stil ltrying to figure out the plan, but it is coming along.

Part 3 "Office"
I was given a city classics mobile home for christmas that I will us an office. I will just build the kit as is and add some detailing to make it more office like.

Part 4 "Boneyard"
Many companies have a hard time throwing things away, instead they park them in a neat line and claim they are spare parts. After the rust to a certain degreee or they need more room they then scrap out some parts and park some other old stuff.

Part 5 " The yard"
This wil leb the last part of the project, this will include all the area around the facility with an area set aside for parking equipment between jobs. My goal is to complete the scenery but I do not have a plan to fil lthe yard up yet.

Any progress? Time has a way of slipping on by, just thought I'd check.

Well this project has been mothballed...

I needed to work on something smaller....

SOOOooooo Now I can get of my Duff just in time to get this new challenge done in the time frame.
I have been working on a modular shelf layout and have been in need of an appropriate switch engine. Since I am modeling Bend Oregon and the staple locomotive was the Alco RS3 I figured that would be what I spent time on. I already had completed an Atlas RS3 that I custom painted around 10 years ago so I thought I would just get it ready and add sound. After a closer examination I saw that my earlier effort had some things that need work. I also had since found a article and better photos of the RS3 to work from. So the first thing I did I stripped all the details and completely disassembled the unit down to the frame.



So far I have completely disassembled the model and cut the frame down to width. I am still in the process of building the fuel tank. I have modified the pilot to better represent the pilot of the model I am doing. I have also removed the plastic fan and replaced it with etched brass. The number boards were already done, but I have changed the mounting of the class lights. I have set the interior up so I can detail it, I have had to build an un-prototypical wall to hide the flywheel, but it is way more open than it was. I also trimmed down the exhaust stack to make it more square. My next step is to get the holes filled and get the fuel tank finished.

mountaingoatgreg Wrote:Part 4 "Boneyard"
Many companies have a hard time throwing things away, instead they park them in a neat line and claim they are spare parts. After the rust to a certain degreee or they need more room they then scrap out some parts and park some other old stuff.

It's when these companies, "scrap out", that The Shipyard buys the scrap as raw material for its foundries.
There's a lot of steam locomotives that owe their existence to "other company Bone-yards"

Some mroe progress on the #65

Got the unit stripped...



Working on the steps