A House for San Berdoo ... but first, The Garage

[P5se Camelback]

... I just took a look at the overhang on my house built in L.A. county in 1954 and remodeled 4 years ago. The overhang varies from 12 inches to about 6 inches on various sides. I thought maybe the code had changed but find the same variation in the old construction as the new.

Thank, Russ!

I just got back from an operation session at the club (... today I ran Train #111 from San Bernardino to Victorville which is then Train #110 for the the return trip. Switching an express reefer off and another on the train, spotting the reefer at the ice house during the stopover at Victorville. That added some interest to the run, as did "taking the siding" a couple times in each direction for a Class 1 train including letting The Super Chief pass by me on my return trip East.)

While I was there, I measured the overhang of a couple of the already-completed houses and found them to scale out at between 9" and 14". I also scrutinized the construction method used by the builder (the "father" of San Bernardino on this layout ... he built the Depot.)
What I discovered was that I had approached the construction from the wrong perspective from the very beginning! :oops:

So, O.K., I've learned a valuable lesson the hard way ... by having to build a "difficult" roof again. But having learned the lesson, I'll never make that same mistake again.

Thanks for doing a little empirical research, Russ! I appreciate it! I'll take on building the new roof after I finish the house, which is well under way ... only one more window opening to file out for a "slip fit." [The filing-and-fitting" photos will hopefully demonstrate (to Jens, along with others) why I was using a couple "fine cut" jewelers' files on styrene. The windows are a "slip-fit" ... take off to much (which I did a couple of times) then involves bonding a "shim" into the "breach" and after waiting for the solvent-softened styrene to harden, then more filing, one or two strokes and then a test fit, two more strokes, test fit ... until the window just fits in the hole with no light visible around the edges! DONE!!

I'll begin cropping and resizing and then posting photos up to Photobook tonight.