Only three posts in and now a "final update?" I'm sure someone is thinking "that didn't take long" and you would be right to accuse me.

It's been four months since my last update and in that time I've made decent progress on the Area H Spur. Most important was constructing the spur lead/staging track. As you'll notice in the photos, my aim was to use lightweight materials for the layout base. Simple steel brackets screwed into the walls and a coroplast (1/4" corrugated plastic sheet) serving as the base material.

I got around to putting up some artwork in the "train room" and wanted to share it with others in the community.

Recent progress includes installing wall shelving, cutting and fitting layout base material (1 1/2" XPS pink wall insulation board) and installing LED lighting. (Images in first comment.)

After many years, I am finally graduating from armchair modeller/locomotive & rolling stock collector to layout builder and operator. Being an apartment dweller, space is at a premium for me, so N scale was the obvious choice.

I am basing my layout on Canadian Pacific's Area H Industrial Spur, located in Etobicoke, Ontario (map). Below is my finalized track plan.