SHOW US!! Your Engine Terminal/Roundhouse Scenes

[LIRR]

This isn't a roundhouse or yard area....but it's a photo of a buried-in-mud trackage. (There's some track-cleaning damage inside the rail in the foreground). My method is: ballast and scenic the usual way. Afterwards i use a mud colored mixture of acrylic paint and paint between the rails and adjacent areas. Brush it on thick and it will approach railhead height. Sift some fine dirt on it. After it all dries, paint again in areas where it would be muddy....tire tracks, roads, footpaths, etc...rub these areas with a finger, then dry brush the texture.

[LIRR]

Here's another shot of buried trackage....alongside the buildings



To do larger areas like an engine terminal, I would use styrene to fill in the areas in between tracks, using styrene as thick as the tie height. Then the paint method would work...

[CNscale]

Still a work in progress, here's mine. Inside the roundhouse the rails were embedded in the concrete using a coat of drywall compound. Outside just ballasted as usual (finely sifted crushed limestone secured with diluted white glue). Weathering on the concrete was various shades of diluted acrylic, followed by a liberal application of Bragdon soot everywhere. I see I still need to touch up a few spots where the PCB ties are showing through.

[Puddington]

Samuel Ridge has a small three track servicing facility:





It has a two stall corrugated metal shed, an outdoor storage track for MOW equipment and a fuelling station.

[Dave V]

Please pardon the derailed GG1...

[Erik W]

Do you have a shot of the back of the roundhouse?  I have wondered about kitbashing one with better stall spacing as well and am wondering what you did in back the stalls.

Jerry,

Here you go, a back shot and a top shot.  As you can see, the downspouts are strategically placed. 





Erik

[Angus Shops]

I did a little research before replying by having a look at some CPR prototype photos of roundhouse/engine service facilities. Specifically I checked Duncan du Fresne's "When Steam and Steel Get In Your Blood - Recollections of a CPR Locomotive Fireman". For a good portion of his narrative he worked as a hostler at Ottawa West roundhouse, and there's plenty of photos.

What strikes me is how clean and tidy the facilities are. Uniform dark grade, probably cinders, with very little 'stuff' laying about. When supplies are stored outside, they are arranged in neat order. There are no piles of debris and junk, as much fun as these sorts of things are to model. I suppose the upkeep of railroad facilities was a management decision. My sense of all things CPR was that management policy was to have all areas of the organization presented as well managed and prosperous, and that 'cleanliness is next to Godliness'.

As neat and tidy as the summer scenes are, the winter shots show an unholy mess of frozen crud!

Mr. du Fresne (now passed) was a great writer. My favourites were in the Bytown Railway Society's monthly "Branchline", in which he would describe the mechanics of some component of a steam loco in detail, and in a way that made it comprehensible to the laymen. Highly recommended.

Geoff

[Spades]

Specifically I would like to see your examples of how you finished out the track, roadbed and surface area.  In so many cases the track is embedded down into concrete What methods have you used to create this? 

I have used styrene, sculptamold, and joint compound all worked fine.  What ever method you use, make sure the track work and electrical connections are flawless.  I always left the rail standing a little proud of the paving so during cleaning I didn't experience any unwanted damage to the paving.  You may never have paid attention to trip pin height, with paving you will.

G

[jmlaboda - RIP]

Thanks Erik!!!

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I'm surprised, I'm seeing a lot more vegetation in the model shots. Did you guys see that much in the prototype photos you used for inspiration?

[Dave V]

I'm surprised, I'm seeing a lot more vegetation in the model shots. Did you guys see that much in the prototype photos you used for inspiration?

Enola was weedy at various times...  Even today.

[CodyO]

My roundhouse 21 stalls




Its seen a bit of weathering since these pictures
Yard shortly after ballast work

[Scottl]

Normally, the only roundhouse that does anything for me is the one in downtown Toronto where they brew beer  .  But Cody, that is really impressive.  I love how you used the corner to great effect as well.

[CodyO]

Thanks scott! I`m happy with how that corner turned out too needed a big roundhouse!
But now the yard needs to be redone to actually be efficient  at being a yard instead of how I foolishly planned it as a sort of staging yard.

[Mike C]

  Couple shots of my Loco service area .