Hi everyone,

Exciting news (for me)! I am finally getting started on my layout. I have a developed basement to fill. The layout is based on Canadian Pacific's operations in Vancouver Canada in the 1940s, particularly Hastings, Rogers Sugar, and Pier B.

I have been thinking about a plan and this is what I have come up with so far. I am actually looking to get started on the benchwork this weekend.

Layout Standards:

I had a poorly designed, too-big model railroad taking space in the basement which was piling up junk on top of it and was getting nowhere so I decided to start over. For several stories I've written in school and on my own time I developed a setting I really like so I knew that any model railroad I did would be set in that setting, which has a nice aesthetic of an anachronistic mix of 30's and 70's technology as well as few paved roads, dense forest, reliance of river transportation, and impromptu, casual, improvised structures and facilities.

Had to pack up Stonehammer.

I separated the models and threw out the staging area.

Yikes! It weighs about 140lbs.