CN Blackwater division

[cnrglen]

Thanks Mike.

Just a little bit of progress since the last post. 
   

I finished off the last bit of narrow gauge track and ran the engine over it a number of times. I do think I might CA a tie or some wheel stops to the end here as it's now a 4'4" drop to the floor.

I started to work on the turntable. I need to make and adapter plate to mount the turntable flush with the top of the layout. As it is now the mounting is on the bottom of the turntable's pit. The outside diameter of the pit is 14" so I need a square piece of 1/2" plywood that is 16" square with a 14" hole in the middle. Fortuently I have all the tools I need at work:

   

Our wall/panel saw. I've been using this for a number of layout projects, from some of the benchwork, to the backdrop and the Fascia.

   

After cutting the plate out, we used a small router with a spiro-cutter adapter to cut out the hole. I was going to do it but my over-enthusiastic  co-worker grabbed the project before I could object.
   

   

And the almost finished adapter plate. Just after I finished this, I got a message from the fellow I bought the turntable from. I apparently left an important component of the turntable behind but I don't know what it is. I'll be going to pick it up in the next couple weeks. With my luck it's the original adapter plate from the layout the turntable came off of.