Some "end zone" shots

The New South Bend Southern!!

Welcome to the new South Bend Southern HO railroad/vehicle layout! With a new home the north-south Indiana pike will be bigger and better than before... stop by often for progress pix as scenery and track construction continue. Thanks for looking.....John Dovak

Time for a little road work...

Corn harvest time again...

Streambank stabilization around the bridge piers...

In the beginning... there was foam...

Pavement's done, time for the finish work.

Time to install the "Jersey" barriers for safety.

Isn't winter wonderful!!!

Pavement at last!!!

paving and rolling and rolling and paving...

Time for more utility work--high up this time!

Final grading...pavement coming soon!

Final grading of the rock sub base is the final step before paving.

Highway construction continues

Part of the highway job is making sure all the needed utilities are where they need to be. These storm water pipes are being installed to make sure the rain water flows away from the highway.

Here comes the rock!

Loading and dumping and loading and dumping.

Building a retaining wall

The highway needs to have a connection to the local surface street--so here we see a crew putting up the retaining wall for the highway off-ramp.

Time to bring the rock sub-base.

L&N has a fleet of dumps to

do the job.

Time to bring in the heavy wrecker

This poor guy's having a really bad day..........

Indiana Red!!!

The Indiana Railroad is a major interchange customer with the SBS in Louisville and Indianapolis, so naturally we need a good showing of Indiana RR red on the soon-to-be-rebuilt SBS layout. At the moment they're all dressed up with nowhere to go... :(

Time for a little bridge work.

Concrete being poured for a single railroad bridge pier across SBS trackage.