Its been a busy year working on the Longmont Terminal & Northern!

The guys working on the Longmont Terminal & Northern model railroad have come a long way!

February 2016

Way back in 2014 we all started this project.

June 2014

We love Scenic Express!

Scratch building everywhere

Its all about planning and execution

Styrene to the rescue

The engineer reminding the model maker how to install a bridge

Styrofoam fitting and cutting in September 2014

Will it clear high profile cars?

Plaster Cloth! Will this ever end

First staining and finishing and paintwork in November 2014

Progress is slow but positive!

Planning while set up at the RMD TCA Rocky Mountain Train Show in December 2014

A proud COSM member and we thank our Veterans! This fine gentleman along with a few other COSM members are retired and career Military. We salute you guys!

One of the guys who built the scenery making adjustments at a show in December 2014.

Amtrak!

Detailing Highway 85

July 2015 Railroad Avenue finally takes shape.

Extension details

Oh how wonderful Silflor is and custom made trees. A subject for another addition to the COSM blog are these terrific Aspen trees; a dear friend has been using this method for decades! An easy method involving using glyceren coated flora and small twigs available at Hobby Lobby, orange, red, green, and lime spray paint, and hand painted white trunks. Install a nail and your in business! One COSM member has made 100’s of them!

Can’t forget about the guard posts

Members say, let’s build a town! One member does a concept illustration showing the plan in classic John Allen fashion!

Mix of scratch-built, kit builds, and Woodland Scenics pre-built structures.

The town now has a foundation thanks to a series of expansion modules.

This is a serious amount of space.

Building more trees on one members design handed down through the years using coated flora from Hobby Lobby.

Plans!

This is going to be a serious amount of work; and expense!

November 2015

Styrene the stuff of legend. This is actually tub and shower liner

Signs & Utilitiy poles are being built a feverish pitch. Keil Line white metal details and balsa & dowels from Caboose Hobbies.

Detailing is the fun part for some of the guys

That is the 1930’s era service station not the real thing!

All those kits we all had collecting dust are being built! We love that 1930’s era Service Station from Berkshire Valley but it was decided it was too early for our modeling era on the layout so we built another.

December 2015

Two amazing guys decide that the Berkshire Valley 1940’s Mobil Station kit provided by another member at the last moment is a better fit for the 1950’s than the 1930’s kit.