Thursday, August 5, 2010

A small accomplishment, yet a milestone for the Geneva Sub

Its just another turnout being installed.  But, its a major milestone as it is the LAST turnout for the layout.   The turnout below is the 113th turnout I've built and installed on the UPRR Geneva Subdivision.  Its a pretty good feeling to get the final turnout in and installed.  It was 21 months ago that I built the first turnout and for a while there it seemed like building turnouts was the only thing I was doing.  Its been fun to move on to scenery and installing signals.  My next big task is doing scenery in Rochelle which will complete scenery in that room and will allow me to install signals for the Rochelle BNSF/UP diamonds and also do some work on the floor in that room which is in pretty bad shape right now.  I plan to do a post on siganlling progress tomorrow or Saturday with some video.  Also, don't forget to check back on Sunday for the announcement of the GP 40-2 contest winner.

7 comments:

  1. Looking back, 21 month seems to have flown by. Great progress!

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  2. Yes, it has flown by. Let's see, about 2.5 hours for each turnout from contrustion of the turnout to installation and wiring times 113 turnouts, that's 282.5 hours which works out to 13.5 hours per month or about 3 hours a week. Plus all the time spent on benchwork and everything else that has gone into the layout to this point leads me to one very important observation; I got to get out of the basement more!!!

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  3. Congratulations! Can't wait to see more!

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  4. Looks really good Daryl! Did you make any 3 ways? Curious since I have a bunch to make.

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  5. time for the golden spike cerimony

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  6. Not quite yet. I still have track to lay for the BNSF loop. No tunrouts, but about 30 feet of track. THEN the track laying will be completely done.

    Daryl

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