Saturday, July 24, 2010

100 Day Report + 5

Today is day 105 as an N scaler...

Progress continues on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad!  Progress was slow over the past week with family in town, but we continued to make a push to get a little done each evening.

The biggest accomplishment of this past week was laying track up the ovalix.  Still one loop shy of completion, the track laying process has gone well.  Preliminary testing up and down the ovalix to date has been successful. 

Today, I was joined by the creative work forces of the Charleston, Roanoke & Eastern and the Peconic Railroads.  I wasn't quite sure what we would accomplish, but desired to continue working on the subroadbed.  We pushed forward and made significant progress!  I'm happy to report that the subroadbed for Phase I of the CRI&P N Scale layout is complete!!!  Subroadbed was cut and installed from Stockdale (at the top of the Ovalix) through Joliet (out and back across the upper peninsula) and over to Blue Island completing the benchwork!  Wahoo!!  What an awesome feeling to get this far so quickly!! 

Many many thanks go out to Marcus Neubacher of the Charleston, Roanoke & Eastern Railroad and Larry Keller of the Peconic Railroad for their help, inspiration and dedication in construction and design of the layout! 

Overview of the peninsula with the newly installed subroadbed on the upper level.  Cardboard (safety) strips were added to the ovalix to avoid any untimely suicide drops by locomotives or cars.





New subroadbed installed between Joliet and Blue Island on the upper level.






Track laid on the ovalix.







Stockdale subroadbed installed on the upper level.







Joliet subroadbed installed on the upper level.







The over/under at Joliet, IL on the upper level.  Another view of the subroadbed between Joliet and Blue Island, IL






Davenport Yard under construction







Upper level subroadbed installed.

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