For the longest time this triangle of real estate in the corner of the 22nd Avenue Secondary has remained barren and empty, with no apparent development in sight. I have wrestled with this space almost since the construction of the benchwork, never having come up with a good plan for what to do with it. Besides the obvious angle-induced problems, whatever landed there had to keep the food distributor in the back accessible for switching.

Here is my new design for my Tonopah and Tidewater RR.  The old model railroad had to be moved from a 15X15 room in Reno to a 3rd car garage in Las Vegas and it couldn't moved intact.  Only the left side and the top with bridge is intact. The new design is influenced by Trevor Marshall and others who advocate simpler switching layout designs.  So the new version depicts a small section of the railroad in Goldfield rather than 30 miles depicted in 25 feet.  If you have not been in Nevada imagine desert scenery with mine hoist and mills everywhere.

I need some advice, folks.  I'm about to install four strips of LED lights on my new layout.  Three of them can be installed in a single piece, and the fourth is going to be pieced together out of the leftover pieces.  The layout they are going on is built in two pieces, with the idea of eventually (some time in the next 5 years, hopefully) moving into a new home, and taking the layout with us.

I have continued to build and install risers on the main level (3/4 inch dimensional lumber pieces) and for about half of the 3rd level (either pieces of dimensional lumber or cut from ripped sections of leftover pieces of plywood). Much of the material that I am using for risers are being culled from the very large collection of lumber pieces left over from my previous layout.