Benchwork - Roadbed
matching yard and main level
I'm about to lay the track in my yard and engine terminal. Basically I have a 4x8 (don't scream) dedicated to the engine terminal, with the main and a yard curving across a quarter of it. My quandry is that the main will be going through on cork roadbed, but I was intending to lay the yard tracks flat on the plywood. What is a reasonable way to match the level of the yard tracks, which would be around a half an inch lower than that of the main up on the cork?
Test successful!
This weekend I got around to finishing up the tail track so that I could run a train across the module and verify that all the feeders and trackwork was OK. I found one loose feeder, possibly caused when the module set fell off the sawhorses in the garage. The other problem was one turnout with a sticky point. I got both those taken care of and shot a little video of the first train here:
Cutting Foam for Scenery
I have moved into adding foam around the track work that has been laid already. I want to run trains in the mountain area without the risk of locos or rolling stock dashing to the floor. Hence the foam.
Now I don't know about you but I have worked with foam before...in the garage...and it can get messy. Well the new layout is in the 'man cave'. This is a "den/extra room" that I installed double doors on and thereby was granted free reign of my new kingdom. Behind closed doors, but nevertheless free reign!!
LCRR Work Night - 2012-05-29
Tonight I worked on multiple projects in the staging area. I painted the sub-roadbed in preparation for installing the track that goes around the helix. It went from this:
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