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At our railroad park one of the structures quite literally fell apart. So here is a work in progress replacement. I use Aspire and a 48x96 ShopBot. 1/8th ball nose for the scribing, 1/4 in end mill for openings and cutout of the 1/2 in plywood, and a 1/16th tapered ball nose for the 6mm sintra detail parts. Lots more to do so for now, just a work in progress. Russ

A gallon can of paint inf the lower right shows relative size.



Can you guess what the structure is?



OK, good guess!

Really like your work.

Thanks for sharing....

Wonderful and fun I am sure.

Phil

Looks great, i did a very small church and drag engraved the acrylic windows with a pattern and lit it up, adds a nice touch, will this be lit up?

Bernie

Nice work,,,lots of patience...

Michael

Bernie, no lights for this structure. We have experimented some with solar mini panels but we don't do much night running so it's currently not a high priority. We have about 150 or so miniature buildings on the property (2,200 acres) so conventional wiring is not an option. The buildings stay out all year round so they are less than super detailed and more towards the robust, maintainable side of the scale! Russ

Boy! That snow looks real!! ...joe

The trick is to keep the dust off! Russ

all i can say is wow

Russell....No pics of the 1/8 scale trains with the full size humans plowing the snow off the tracks?
scott

Nice project. That must be quite an RR site built on 2,200-acres.

On the 2,200 acres of Oregon pine forest we have built 37 miles of 7 1/2 inch gauge track (so far). Russ

http://trainmtn.org/tmrr/index.shtml

My engine


Steamer and train


Family fun


One of the yards

Plowing snow:


Using the spreader (read that snow wedge / bulldozer)


One of the train mounted plows


And an old shaky video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afMmhGwLaNk

Aaaah! THERE we go
Still find it hard to believe your structures hold up as well as they do with the snow, and freeze/thaw cycles:)
Well done Russ!!!
scott

Seriously cool!!!
I just went and spent the last couple of hours checking out the Train Mountain website.
Wish I lived closer.