October 16
Track laying on the B&CC consisted only of laying the Cashier Stamp Mill siding (about 100 scale feet of track), putting it and last week's track down permanently and laying wood ties for both. Since I'm almost out of wooden ties (I have a bunch on order that should be in sometime in November), I plan on laying the single track to upper cashier turnout next week and then starting the spiking process of existing track (not sure how much of that I'll get done each day). Since not much has changed, no new photos this week (if I get the new single track laid, I'll take a picture of it and the Cashier Mill Siding together - which will include the caulk adhesives and wood ties).
The rest of this week was spent working on engine designs. Thanks to all that helped with my question about main rods - I've got models that fit together (so far) and I've laid out most of the wood boxes and cab design (waiting on the backhead from PSC to verify that the cab design will work). The good news is that I have more evidence that the CT decoders will fit in the saddle tank along with CT's speaker around the Flea motors - haven't pulled the trigger on these yet as I want to see the PSC smokebox front that on its way first before I say for sure that the decoders will fit.
Even with all that, I've got enough files together (with quotes from an online machine shop) that I can spend some time this next week talking to local fabrication shops to see what kind of price I can get from them and get the part fabrication process started.
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