Benchwork - Roadbed
Weekly Photo Fun 4/28-5/4
I'll start the thread this week
Show 'em if you got'em............works in progress to finished projects.
Birdsboro & Reading ex-PRR N8 cabooses.
Lumber Prices Going Up?
Just a heads up, Trump has put a 20% import tax on lumber coming in from Canada. If you are planing on buying lumber for whatever reason get it soon. It won't take long for it to start going up.
Jack
Layout progress - N Scale Montana Late 70's - Track plan changes
Hi all
Had a few hours this weekend to have a look at the track plan.
Here is the entire room and track plan.
Making turnout pads with cork
I was looking at cork roadbed for my layout and I have seen numerous videos on how to use the 3ft sections to make your turnout pads using cork. When looking online I noticed that they make the cork already premade for different types of turnouts and just wondering if most make there own or use the commercially made ones.
I know there probably would be a debate on whether to use one or the other, but curious how others are doing that.
New shelf layout benchwork
First ever blog entry! Thought I'd share since its using steel stud and track, a method that occasionally comes up but I haven't seen it much used for a shelf layout. Generally the details of construction are pretty thin in discussions too.
Just to set the stage. This will be my second layout since getting back into the hobby as an adult. The first was last year; a typical 4x8' double track roundy round with a small yard and a couple industry spurs.
New Boards for the S&NE
Further issues with my arthritis have caused me to dismantle the layout that I was building on the kitchen units. There were two problems with it. Basically, the return curves were too tight and I was getting a lot of issues with stock coming off the track. Secondly, it required that I stand up to build the railroad and also to do the switching.
Wood+Foam= Fun,Fun,Fun!!
Well he are once again with some more ramblings and pictures.
First off let me say that I knew these sections would have to be transported here, there and everywhere. ( once I started doing shows). So I made sure that I used top quality materials.
3/4" Baltic Birch Plywood
1/2" Baltic Birch Plywood
1/4" Sanded Plywood
2" Owens Corning Pink Foamular 250
Assorted Glues, and Fasteners
In need of some good ideas
Hello again all. As some of you may know, I will be retiring and moving shortly, so I have been re-designing what hopefully will be my last railroad. The entire layout will be 32" off the floor as I have difficulty standing for long periods of time so this will be a roll around railroad. The benchwork will all be 1" x 4" with inch and a half foam as the sub roadbed. My plan is to build this in sections, probably 4' long. I will lay the track and do the wiring at the workbench and then set the section in place.
NMRA PNR 2nd Division Event April 15th 2017
We are planning a great event!
Come and see Toni Ryan's N scale folding yard as see in the MRH forum (see link below)
http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/26602?page=2
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