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In-ko-pah RR: The Princess Shilo Mine

Modeling
#21

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#22

Thanks so much Ray for posting. I enjoy your project’s sooooo… much

#23

Very nice. Do you have the ore cars built yet? They should look great under that.

I never thought about painting wood to look like wood. :slight_smile:

#24

Thanks! Ore cars are still a ways off yet. I want to get more done on this mine, and a few other structures.

#25

Progress has been slow lately due to lots of other obligations, but here’s a brief update:

I built the “collar” of the mine shaft, of “square set” timbers with planks on the exterior. I decided to make this a double-shaft mine:

I also enlarged the pit I’d dug in the hillside for the mineshaft, and moved it slightly closer to the ore bin. I made more room for the hoist house too. Here the shaft collar is test-fitted in the pit:

I poured a bit of mortar into the pit and positioned the collar, taking care to make it as level as possible since it will support the headframe. I rebuilt the hillside around the mine shaft, bringing it up almost level with the top of the collar. Then I started construction of the headframe. In this shot, the main vertical element of the headframe has been temporarily placed in position:

The next step will be finishing the headframe. Then I’ll work on the hoist house and its foundation.

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#26

Still making slow progress…

After studying pics of a prototype headframe, I realized that the rear horizontal members on this part of the structure were not needed, so I carefully cut them out. (I left the two lowest sets because, unlike the prototype, my headframe has not other support in that area.) In this photo you can also see the holes for the tie rods. Some of these had to be predrilled during assembly:

Next I put together the support structure, which is somewhat like a trestle bent:

The two components were painted separately:

I scraped and sanded the paint from the contact points, and glued the two sections together. Then I started building the rear braces. There are still some other details to be added. These details, and the rear braces, will be painted once everything is in place. Here’s how it looks so far:

I also have to build a “bridge” from the headframe to the top of the ore bin. Carts full of ore would be pushed across this bridge, to be dumped into the bin.

#27

Nicely done Ray. Something tells me if you had tiny scale people, you’d make money off that mine when it’s done