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

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.

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.

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.