The LIRR Industrial Service, Inc. shelf layout

[Lemosteam]

After some 5 week life challenges, I finally had the chance to do some work on the layout and details. First, I painted, weathered, and added cables to the open and closed grapple hooks. I need to make a ball of scrap to put inside the closed grapple.





I also lengthened the mooring tires and bollards to allow for another barge location closer to the newly added siding for more loading and unloading capability on the waterfront. I’m thinking of designing and printing a smaller vessel for the new mooring.





I also printed some more PRR style light post concrete piers for the WS streetlights that will be installed later on the extension across from the icing platform, between the branch line and the siding.

[Lemosteam]

This episode of JFPTM (IYKYK) finds an old PRR H10s on the branch line with a very short local. I added the fencing and gates to the scrap yard in temporary placement after spraying the panels with an old alcohol and ink weathering mix from a thread here. I like the effect that would surely happen from all of the filth and soot from steam locomotives passing by, and the way it hides the train partially from view.











Posed in the scrap yard entry gates are two incoming gons and one empty outgoing gon waiting for the 44 tonner to place them to go to their next destination.

[Lemosteam]

New reduced 70’ barge acquisition for the IS, nah but really newly printed design to fit in front of the breakwall.

Here’s the scaled down barge I printed as the first model off the new printer, copied from the 85 footer in front of it. I needed something a bit smaller to fit in the water in front of the breakwall.





Just need to weather and letter like the other two and make a load, but I am thinking about leaving her unloaded, but dirty inside.

[Lemosteam]

Got excited about the new barge, so I weathered it, decaled the IS herald, and finalized its placement. Love my new printer!

Here is a low angle warefront shot of the west side of the channel.


This scene needs humans!


The new barge:


Overhead of the new barge:


Overhead of the entire west side:


Meanwhile on the east side of the channel, I am preparing for filth in and around the scrap yard.

[Lemosteam]

Finally added ground to the east side of the channel at the waterfront. Tried to weather (dirty up) around the scrap piles with an airbrush, not perfect, but I am happy. Added the bollards and placed the magnetic scrap piles back down. Need to add the office and equipment shop building. Next is ballasting the track, and installing the fencing I showed a while back.

[Lemosteam]

Added some of the fencing and structures to the scrap yard. Took some new night shots as well. Need to ballast and fill between the tracks with filthy, rusty cinder/ballast and then add the tall pole lights there as well as in the main scrapyard. Then the next thing to do is add the gravel road across the tracks and the remainder of the fence/gates into the facility.

















I also finished up the c9nveyor, added coal to the belt and dumping into the barge. Also made a dumping shovel loader of coal falling into the chute.

[Lemosteam]

Finished up the LIRR IS scrap yard. ballast gravel road, wood fencing and structures. All that is left are the yard lights and their connection and transformer feeds on the line poles in the background. Track has been cleaned and hopper tested for rolling quality and switching. This pretty much concludes the construction of the main layout, save for some human and vehicular details.

The extension will wait till fall as will the backdrop and bench work edging.

JFPTM Saturday!

[wm3798]

Amazing work, as always.
I'm feeling the itch to get my little Atlantic out and give it a few laps on the layout tonight.
Lee

[Lemosteam]

Amazing work, as always.
I'm feeling the itch to get my little Atlantic out and give it a few laps on the layout tonight.
Lee

Thanks Lee, yeah one of this little buggers would be good on this layout but they are not DCC.
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