Have you ever known that you have a problem but choose to cast "blind eyes" on it?  Well, that is me with the light switches in my office / layout room.  When I was putting the bench work in the room I could see that access to the light switches was going to be obstructed but I was in such a hurry to get it in I ignored the problem.  Thank goodness I've come to my senses before it was too late!

The Buck & Loretta diorama has arrived in the layout room!  Right now it's just sitting on top of the right front corner bench work but it's an important step to make sure that it will fit on the layout, which I'm happy to report it does very nicely.  Once this is in place permanently the track will curve in front of the rock area.

I've designed my Richlawn Railroad V2 layout to be movable by constructing the bench work in sections.  I was thinking the other day about if I had to move the layout how I would know where to cut through the scenery from the top in a manner to do the least amount of damage.  The solution needed to be cheap, easy to install, and easy to use.  Then I remembered something I got in the mail - an envelope with an easy open tear strip.  I figured that I could make something like that for my layout.

It's a banner day here for the Richlawn RR V2 as today I put three sections of the benchwork in the room and connected them together!  At the rate I was progressing there were times when I thought that this day would never come.

For some benchwork is boring but I enjoy it - to a point.  There's nothing new or innovative in what I'm doing but I'll continue posting so you can follow along.

A friend of mine has been helping me by doing CAD work on my trackplan which is a modification of Scott Perry's Heart of Georgia (HOG) layout.  This is a rough draft and isn't labeled but you can get a general idea.  I purposely am going with a simple layout to allow space for my pull out desk since this is also my office.  The orange track running around the top and right is an isolated Doodlebug track.Doodlebug track.

What a benchmark (get it?) day for me as yesterday I constructed my first piece of benchwork.  It's been over 6 months since we moved into our Florida home.  Now I feel like I'm finally making some progress on the railroad!  It took me several hours to complete because I'm a slow worker in the first place and I purposely slow down even more when working with saws.

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