HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945

[Steveruger45]

Just need a little more time and few more dollars... and a hand full of round tuits.  Those things are quite elusive!

Lee

Nah.  Amazon has them with bonus square tuit as well
50 Round Tuit Plus Bonus Square Tuit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0764KNT5N/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_ptxADbF7B553G

[Steveruger45]

August 2019 update.

In a word....Inspirational

[DKS]

In a word....Inspirational

If you must use only one. I'd be hard-pressed to choose just one word.

[davefoxx]

August 2019 update.

Rio Garnde?!  Haha!

[Dave V]

Rio Garnde?!  Haha!

Aw, DAMMIT!

[Dave V]

Here's the runby by itself...with "Rio Grande Southern" spelled correctly on the title slide...   

Three shots of Ophir:







And lastly I decided my Rockies needed to be rockier (Dumb and Dumber anyone?) so I transported the mountains near Dallas Divide on the RGS to the area between Gallagher and Rico:

[DKS]

This is the cat's meow...

[Cajonpassfan]

Dave, that looks. So. Damn. Good!
Nice progress in the short time since I got to see it first hand!
Otto

[Dave V]

After many, many months of procrastination I nutted up and started scratchbuilding the RGS Ridgway roundhouse.  It's built entirely from styrene.  Dimensionally, it's exact to prototype except I kept it to the original 5 stalls (2 were added later for the Galloping Geese on the west side).  The wedge of lighter color brick above the rear window on the east wall is prototypical...apparently there was some sort of damage (roundhouse fire? partial collapse?) that dates way back to the teens, not long after it was built (replacing the original one on the north side of town).  I did use the earlier style doors by Grandt Line (some time in the late 20s/early 30s the doors were replaced with two-panel windowless doors).  It’s a very tight fit for a K-27 with snowplow...I made the openings to fit the Grandt Line doors...and they’re EXACTLY the width of a Blackstone snowplow. I feel a scrape or two when housing the engine is totally RGS-like so I’m not losing sleep.

I also must have bumped business car B-21 (the "Edna") while test fitting the roundhouse so if it looks derailed...it's because it is.









Since I don't like the engineering involved in making removable roofs for complex applications (this roof will have 10 individual panels), I instead make the entire engine house one solid block that is kept in place using locator blocks on the interior, painted black and glued to the layout.  It's worked really well for the Rico engine house, so that's my plan here.

[Hawghead]

Dave,

Fantastic job as usual.  Is the foundation stone, and what did you use to make it?

Scott

[Dave V]

Dave,

Fantastic job as usual.  Is the foundation stone, and what did you use to make it?

Scott

It is, and I used JTT plastic stone sheet for it (just as I used JTT brick sheet for the brick).  My local Hobby Lobbies and HobbyTowns (I have two of each in Colorado Springs!) carry JTT sheets.

[johnb]

It is, and I used JTT plastic stone sheet for it (just as I used JTT brick sheet for the brick).  My local Hobby Lobbies and HobbyTowns (I have two of each in Colorado Springs!) carry JTT sheets.

I am jealous...I still need to order some from Amazon

[Hawghead]

My local Hobby Lobbies and HobbyTowns (I have two of each in Colorado Springs!) carry JTT sheets.

I have one LHS and it carries R/C cars and foamy airplanes and that's about it.  I'm very jealous.  A great job though, very impressive.

Scott

[Dave V]

Finally finished the Ridgway roundhouse:







I was able to pretty much get all the structures in the same orientation and relation to each other and the trackage as at the real Ridgway, only slightly compressed in all directions.



Also a 30-minute scratchbuild...the Galloping Goose fuel shed:



Current state of the basement, i.e., Narrow Gauge Country:

[davefoxx]

Victory!  Looks good and a great presentation in the finished part of your basement.  I love it.

DFF