Since my last update I have moved and a couple years went by. I put my two modules together front to front with the pink styrofoam in between them. They are both 2’ by 4’ plywood pieces.  I wrapped them in plastic movers wrap and then ignored them for awhile in the basement . Now I want to get back into modeling. I put them on the kitchen counter and noticed that the plywood is warped on both of them. I don’t want to throw them out and start again. 

Making some slow progress on my layout. Since my last post about how I recycled parts of my 20+ year old train table, I have finished the first part of the 8' by 2' benchwork. I added some 1" by 1" wood cleats to the joists so I could screw the plywood from below. I used 2 pieces of 2' by 4' birch plywood for the top.

When I was in high school I built a train table using the design in the "HO Railroad that grows" by Linn Westcott. When I expanded the layout i built a second table. Seven or eight years later I dismantled the layout, and threw most of the scenery and track away, but the train tables became storage tables.