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Martin, It's extruded Styrofoam insulation and craft paints. The chunks of foam were broken rather than cut and any weird bits were sanded away.
The look matches the rest of the "granite" in the quarry pit.

Nice!
Is that real granite or simulated?
MJinTN

Nice work.

Some more on the water cannon car.

The metal roof deck and the water cannons roughed in.



The basic painting finished.



Laying out and building the wood decking.



The car assembled and ready for details.



We will see the finish of this car in the next installment.
Thanks for taking a look.
Rick

There's a bit of a granite quarry on the back edge of the C&VRR. Finally 3 Bachmann Civil War era flat cars have just been somewhat updated and upgraded, turning them into rolling stock dedicated to captured service hauling chunks of granite to processing sites imagined further up the line.

What a terrific time you must have had. Toni's Decauville and rolling stock are superb. Anything Volker does, including his advice, is worth paying for. Still, it's too bad you had to remove a piece of your bridge. I hope you can use all or part of it as scenery somewhere else. -- Russ

Thank you for all the information. This is fascinating to me (us)
Martin

Hi everyone,

Volker and Toni visited me last weekend. Unfortunately, we live quite far apart, so it had been three and a half years since we last met.
This meant we had all the more to see and discuss—in far too little time...

Volker and I discussed my interpretation of the round arch in more detail and took another look at the two pictures (Delvenau_Wehr_27 and Delvenau_Wehr_50)...

Delvenau_Wehr_58 (fspg2)


Delvenau_Wehr_59 (fspg2)


Delvenau_Wehr_60 (fspg2)


Delvenau_Wehr_61 (fspg2)


... with the result that I have to agree with Volker: the version I built with a round arch (on the right in the picture) will be replaced by an H-profile support structure with wooden planking—more on that later!


At least the area has now been cleared again with a plunge saw blade:

Delvenau_Wehr_62 (fspg2)



A little milling was done as well...

an der Fräse (fspg2)

(photographed through a window by Volker)


Toni had brought along his fantastic homemade Decauville steam locomotive with a few wagons and placed it on the tracks. Since no locomotive had traveled up the incline for around nine years, the tracks first had to be cleaned.

Delvenau_Decauville_Besuch_01 (fspg2)


Delvenau_Decauville_Besuch_02 (fspg2)


Delvenau_Decauville_Besuch_03 (fspg2)


Delvenau_Decauville_Besuch_04 (fspg2)


Delvenau_Decauville_Besuch_05 (fspg2)


Delvenau_Decauville_Besuch_06 (fspg2)


If you're interested, you can see Toni presenting his locomotive here: Click

Nice work on the handrails. -- Russ

Good morning, another update.

The start of the shell for the water cannon car that covers the trailing power car.



With the basic shell complete the hand rails were started. Also in the picture is the start of the water tank car which will be the next build covered.



Hand rails and ladders were built up using .063 brass brazing rod and soft soldered together, not fancy but should do the job.



Railings are test fitted to the car top, they are made to be removable for future work and painting.


That's it for now, Thanks for taking a look.
Rick