I saw a photo recently in the MRH forums recently that had included what looked like drywall as sub roadbed. I'm not sure that this is a good idea, but seeing it got me to thinking... I am currently building a new house and I have lots of drywall cuttoffs waiting to go to the dump.

Can anyone suggest *any* good use for this material in layout construction before I just throw it out?

- Bill

Hello to everyone here at Model Railroad hobbyist. Always a visitor and never a member till now. 

My first post is about my fictional railroad that, ironically shares the same name as a real railroad, that I didn't know about until recently. 

My n scale railroad is the Central Illinois Railroad, based in Evans (ghost town), Illinois. Its locomotive fleet consist of:

Rock Island, 4-8-4, 5113

CNW, 4-6-0, 237

2 unlettered 2-8-0s

1 undecorated 0-8-0

2 undecorated Dash 9s

6 tracks in the Station. Double main heading out of town.  Double main heading down into staging representing places far-far-away. and two tracks leading to maintenance, refueling and possible storage of passenger equipment.  I also wanted no less than #8 turnouts so passenger trains would roll easy pushed in, or pulled out.

Here are some picturess of my layout. Your comments are welcomed, but understand that I am not a purist nor a rivet counter. Nonetheless, I was wondering do others use "manual dispatching" relative to switches and signals on a DCC system like I do? My switches are 2 pole 6 ways that let me select which aspect I need. Secondly, my ballast looks much better in person than in the pictures. It is a cheap and neat way to do it, with paint. Also as you will notice I am much farther along on the area that has trees and grass. Pics to follow.    Kyle