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Dallas Divide Tool Shed Build

July 7 2024

Posted on July 7, 2024 | 2 minutes | 217 words | Jonathan Sauer

A train buddy of mine suggested I capture my Placerville General store in black and white like the photo I used as reference. I did not get the angle quite right, still missing the flag and bike, but it’s a reasonable match. I can’t wait till I build Placerville! Now that the section house is finished, time for the next structure. For the next structure, I decide to see what I could do with my laser cutter and made the Tool Shed. [Read More]

Dallas Divide Section House Build

July 3 2024

Posted on July 3, 2024 | 2 minutes | 224 words | Jonathan Sauer

Since I’m working on test benchwork for Dallas Divide, I thought it was time to replace some of the cardboard mockups with real structures. Last year at the Narrow Gauge Convention in Colorado, I picked up the Dallas Divide Section house. Time to build that kit. It’s an old kit and the board and batten was something you actually had to build up, unlike a number of kits today. It was a total pleasure doing that. [Read More]

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Placerville General Store

A 3d printing project

Posted on June 24, 2024 | 3 minutes | 537 words | Jonathan Sauer

I have been working on Placerville since 2018 and posted a few updates on groups.io. Steve Depolo’s work in Placerville has been inspirational, and motivated me to share my build of Placerville. This is my first major post and project in the last few years. I got to know Mike McCarville over the last few years and have been collaborating with him on a few chimneys. Mike did the Placerville post office which was a fun project to build, but it needed the chimney. [Read More]

Placerville Structures 3D-Printing

First Post

Early Placerville

Posted on June 11, 2024 | 2 minutes | 293 words | Jonathan Sauer

This is my first entry but it’s a bit about the past. I have added a bit of my history and previous layouts in the various links. Not going to blog about that, other than if I add an update. For years, I have been working on a bedroom sized shelf layout. I dreamed of a larger space for my layout but was reasonably content. Then I retired, the pandemic hit, and I met a group of folks that have top notch layouts, and regulalary operate on them. [Read More]

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