Burrlington Northern in HO

This blog is intended to document the progress of developing and operating my HO scale model of the Burlington Northern Railway, for the purposes of orienting new operators and for my own record of its design process. The layout is located in Seattle, WA and models the area from Tukwila in the south, Bellingham in the north and Skykomish in the east. The time frame of the model is approximately 1973, three years after the merger that created the BN from the GN, NP, SP&S and CB&Q.

Monday, May 13, 2019

water for the MILW barge

A long time ago I got the idea to make the water under the MILW barge out of a two-inch deep plexiglass box, so we could model the sea bed underneath the barge. I've had the piece of plexiglass sitting around for years, and finally I took it over to my neighbor's house and we sawed the needed pieces on his table saw. We tried scoring and breaking it, but it didn't work nearly as well as running it through the table saw, using his carbide tip blade. I did cut the two inch strips to length by scoring, but that was easier than the longer cuts. Here are pictures of the box temporarily taped together with blue masking tape:

After glueing and removing the protective plastic layer, it came out pretty well!