Now that I have the benchwork in and Homasote subroadbed down work has to move to the next couple of items before track laying can begin in earnest. These are getting the high rear and low-profile foreground backdrops in - the latter to hide the surround staging tracks that wrap around the rear of the benchwork. Per the plan below you can see the high-backdrops noted as the thick, solid blue line behind the staging tracks.

Follow along as I blog the journey in building my HO scale, proto-freelanced Detroit, Mackinac and Marquette Railroad - a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway running between its namesake cities and across the Straits of Mackinac.