Progress Pictures !
After many months of working on Standard Gauge equipment,
Barry has started working on the layout again. Ophir station
first.
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3/21/10 - Rockwood & Hermosa buildings get updated
3/20/10 - Ophir Station & Tram House are completed
1/21/10 - Ophir Station & Tram House get test fit
12/9/09 - Construction has started on the Ophir station
- - - - no time gap in work here, see many photos in Std Ga area
12/28/07 - The
High Line is completed – scenery work is done!
12/20/07 - Scenery work on the High Line over the foyer is started
10/11/07 - Silverton buildings are painted and scenery worked on
5/25/07 - Barry
has built the Silverton Station, in 22.5 scale
1/28/07 - D&RGW
#215, the Pagosa Jct. Combine car gets painted
1/25/07 - D&RGW
Passenger Cars are now painted Grande Gold
1/24/07 - D&RGW
#215, the Pagosa Jct. Combine car
1/22/07 - D&RGW
Combine is completed and ready for paint
1/12/07 - D&RGW
Coach is scratch built and ready for paint
12/23/06 - D&RGW
Baggage Car 129 is painted and ready for service
11/08/06 - Scratch building the D&RGW Baggage Car has started
8/04/06 - K-28
engine #473 is painted in Bumblebee colors and in service
8/02/06 - K-28
engine #479 is built and ready for painting
7/23/06 - The
K-28s, engine #473 and #479, are almost ready for painting
6/15/06 - Work
starts on two new, scratch built K-28 locomotives
6/7/06 - Bogs
Mill is completed! Take a look at the
final painted model
4/6/06 - Bogs
Mill in Rockwood starts getting details added
3/2006 - The
Bogs Mill in Rockwood starts to get structures
2/26/06 - Elk
Park Ore Transfer facility gets built
2/15/06 - The
Bogs Mill in Rockwood gets a tall trestle
1/2006 - Rock
molds come off and color goes on in Silverton +
TREES ( updated )
11/2005 - The brown paper goes up as scenery work continues.
10/2005 - Work starts up in the Silverton Room. Trestle and Bridges and more, oh my!
6/2004 - Lots of scenery work has been completed around the Ophir
and Rockwood area.
3/2004 - Progress on the scenery around the Control Panels and bridges,
plus in Rockwood area
11/9/02 - The Durango Roundhouse takes shape! Here is a bunch of pictures of the new roundhouse
11/8/02 - The guys during an operating session on the layout, plus some new scenery shots.
11/3/02 - Work continues on
the 10 stall Durango Roundhouse. Plus
more scenery and ground cover
has been
installed, along with more backdrop photo murals. In prep for
the November 'Open House'.
7/15/02 - The scenery takes on a new life when Photo Murals are
installed for back-drops. Look at the
depth
these add and the life that comes
to a scene with a full size picture installed for a backdrop.
11/11/01 - Scenery has started! Barry installed the first portion of
scenery on the wall area above the foyer,
near the Lobato Trestle, mid-level grade and the "High
Line", and in to the Silverton room.
9/8/01 - The Howe Truss bridge over the big foyer window is
installed! We also see some new Tunnel
Portals
and wood
retaining walls, as the work on the scenery begins to take shape.
8/4/01 - An "Operating Session" puts the layout and
Dispatcher thru their paces. Here we see a couple pictures
of the crews working the line, using RailOp software setup for this layout. And the start of some scenery.
5/12/01 - In the Spring, Barry completed the bridge and details, includng all trestle bents.
11/10/00 - Trains run over the
Not
yet finished, but the trains are now running around the upper level and OVER
THE BIG BRIDGE.
10/28/00 - While working on the web-site, I realized that I had two
photos that are were very similar.
The
difference is one was taken in May of 1995, the other in September of 2000.
10/21/00 - The
and the wood "base board" areas for the trestle bent footings and scenery to follow.
9/30/00 - Craig Brantley took several photos of Barry's layout. These include several locomotive shots.
9/16/00 - Pictures taken of the layout thus far, with the track
completed to Silverton. The layout has various
buildings
"set" in place" for a feeling and location placement. Permanent structures to be built later.
4/11/99 - This is what the layout looked like soon after the initial
benchwork started. Also showing
the
storage tracks below the
Most
pictures were taken by