Well, it's lovely weather outside and I've decided to start on a major refurb' on my garden railway, the "Humpybong and District Rly". 

It doesn't snow in Brisbane but it does cop a heavy downpour or two.

What has everyone used for the subroadbed and roadbed of their layouts "out there" ?

Am curious if any 'old timers' may be here, who still swear by Homasote as their standard layout top. In my own case: Was in HO modular club 6 years in 80s-90s; used it on all 26 modules we built. Love how it holds track spikes on my Peco Code 100 flex/Insulfrogs. Always model 'weed grown' r-o-w, so don't bother w/elevated roadbed. This saves a lot of work, time and $ when on ss. And we modeled early 50s rural branchline, so trackage was right on for our era.

  Last weekend we had our second local FreeMoN get together.  It was a lot of fun!  We were hosted at the Columbia Gorge Model Railroad Club, and set up in their clubhouse.  They were there getting ready for their open house season (Christmas time), so a lot of the club members were there.  A motorcycle group was also getting a private tour of the HO layout, resulting in quite the audience!  Five of us brought modules, but Adam's was not fully operational and did not get set up.