I started on my benchwork. After looking at several styles I settled on L girder cantelivered on the wall.

My material list was:

2 sheets 3/4 4x8 plywood (Only used 1 1/2 sheets)

8 8' 2x2's

2 3/4" cabinet screws

15ga x 1 1/4" pin nails

Wood Glue

I attached 1 1/2 x 3/4 furring strips to the wall studs with 3 cabinet screws. The horizontal supports are 3/4 x 3 x 22" ply attached to the furring strips with 4 pin nails. I then used the 2x2 cut at 45 degrees to brace the horizontal braces. They are attached to the furring strip with a cabinet screw and pin nailed in an x patern to the horizontal brace. The L girders are all 3" plywood strips glued and pin nailed.

I was a little bit hesitant about using the plywood and light construction. The benchwork turned out bomb proof. There is absolitely no vertical or horizontal movement. I can put all my weight on it and it doesn't even creak. I could have easily gotten away with using 2 1/2 instead of 3" plywood strips.

I have a worksite table saw, miter saw, pin nailer and air compressor so it made for quick work. Even if I didn't have these I would highly reccommend renting them for 24 hours to do benchwork.

Thanks for reading

Steve

A bunch of details to complete but putting this project structure aside for now. Finished the ivy on the west wall, temporary banner across the front (the dymo label tape doesn't want to stick to the painted wall). Reflections in the windows behind the glazing is from pictures of the actual location taken a few years ago. Doing a section of landscape foam to support the building. Slow process to building the Napanee scene the way I want it.

I model proto-typically as possible. But here's a 'layout' a friend outside of the hobby that builds Lego structures and the sort... It's a tram..

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Tunnel portals are important scenery details, which most often is bought as a standard item ready made. Then just as often the portal will be somewhat misplaced, unless you´re modelling exactly that region of the prototype.

Retired embedded firmware engineer (EE) from Bell Labs and Qualcomm.  Developed real-time code for data terminals, speakerphones, CDMA phones, echo-cancellers, voice-recognition, optical communication, optical amplifiers, Linux ethernet driver and OFDM multi-band radio control.

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Who here have use code 100 atlas #6 turnout custom line when soldering wires to the frog do I  solder wires to the back of the track or to 1 of the holes in the side of Frog if anyone has photos that will help me that would be nice