The revisions and whatnot of building the N-scale BTR to the stage that it is currently at has left me with a small stack of spare wood panels and planks. I couldn't leave them with the layout as the "train room" is just off the front door. Early 21^st Century scrap yard is simply NOT an acceptable style of furnishing the so-called living room. So, in trying to find a suitable place to stick said spare panels, I made a happy discovery....

As you can see from the photos and plan below, there is / was nearly enough scraps to build a J-shaped shelf layout in my bedroom -- yes, that is a plastic popcorn elephant on the wall. He's been on my bedroom wall since I was a newborn in the early 1970's.

For the moment, there is some Lionel O-scale stuff on the shelf above the bed, but eventually this will be an HO-scale switching layout of some sort. I'm trying not to get distracted from the N-scale layout, so I'm not thinking too hard about what sort of switching layout, but I have added the swing gate behind the door for a runaround tail track or staging track or the like. The "gaping void" is complicated by a 4" difference in height between the shelves and the panels sitting (lower) on the file cabinets. The lamp might be replaced with track lighting, and as for the TV.... I'm half tempted to turn it into a drive-in theatre screen! At 22x13 (not counting its plastic legs) it's a mere 160' x 94' (give or take a bit). A little big, but I don't anticipate entertaining an nitpickers in my bedroom... *ahem* ... so to speak.

That's it for now.