Roofs and windows

This weekends small works. The storage shed and "Jensen Motor" got roofs and windows.


A closer look, to close? Who stole the stairs ;)


"Jensen Motor" still missing one window thats going to be replaced by a sheet of plywood or something similar.

Prewiew

The houses and other things on their right locations just to test the feeling.

Housebuilding!

Two small houses and a freight shed standing on the workbench. The buildings are scratchbuilt with "Evergreen" Clapboardsiding as walls and are now waiting on details and paint.

MoW on the run!

The Maintenance of Way Section have done some work with ballasting the track. Still some adjustment to do but now it´s beginning to look like a railroad.

Some more progress

Today it was time for the "bad machine", the homebuilt grassmaster to have some action. First the village side


And the side of the storage shed. It still need some more paint with som texture.


And a wiew along the track.


At the same time the dirt road that crosses the rail on the "South End" got guardrails and a layer of putty. (or is it some local snow)


An owerwiew from south to north of the "Mini-Crawford"


And in the opposite direction.


Still a lot of work to do but now we see the end (?). Hopefully it will go public on http://www.dream-track.se/ in March this year.

Happy New Year!

A good new year so far. The "North End"-module got som paint on the sides and the surface got some basic paint in preparation for the grass. The mainline got som gray paint to even if its hard to see.


The place for the storage shed got some putty and another layer of cork to level the railroad cars with the trucks.


A wiew of the future railroad crossing

Roadworks

Among Father Christmas and swedish meetballs there been some small works on the modules. The road that cross the module was this evenings project.


A sheet of 0,75mm styrene was cut in a 4cm slice and scored with a knife in "concrete slabs"

A quick trip to the paintbox and primer and tomorrow it will be glued in place (hopefully)

Landscaping

This evening there was a half hour of landscaping. At first the "raw" creek.


Then the garage of Jensen Motor


And at last the place where farmers coop will place there storage shed.

Test and trials

Puh!

After some work without pictures are Crawford Junction ready for tests and trials in the garage. The first trial was a short work for the switcher to change the loaded hoppers by the elevator to empty ones.

The NW-2 at the junction with the empty hoppers.

Ready, testing the brakes.

Out again. Here in the almost ready landscape on the south section.

Back in the Valley, pushing the cars.

And coupled to the loaded ones.

*¤#*, sorry end of battery in the camera.

Hopefully it will be more pictures from further testruns in the future.

Down under

A wiew from the hidden side with the track feeder and connectors below North End. Here´s also the holes for attaching the legs visible.

"Terraforming"

Next step was to begin the terraforming and make the landscape with connecting road more smooth. The "Goo" used is a mixture of plaster, glue, sawdust and paint.

Tracks on the North End

Today the work progressed in two steps. The first was laying tracks on the roadbed that was finished earlier this week. The right side will hold "Farmers Coop" with a small storage shed and the left some small cottages and a car workshop

One, two and three

Here´s some pictures showing the principle of modularity. How it´s possible for Crawford to grow and fit several spaces

One - The small one, with a short track to a freight shed. South and North End(ca 109 cm)


Two - medium size, with a short run around and an additional track to a grain elevator on the Valley(ca 218 cm)


Three - Next step, with the Junction in place but the not yet grown sideways. (ca 330 cm)


Four, five, six... are still in the imagination of the builder.

Some painting!

Today in the evening the inside of both the "Valley" and "North End" modules where ready to get som paint.

North End

Next section to build is that which will connect to the right. Instead of the trackconnection in the previous plan there are just a simple loading track with a storage shed used by the Countys Farmers