As you can see the plans have changed a fair bit from the earlier plan. I have secured a better location consisting of half a bedroom, so it is now an L-shaped layout.  It will feature a main urban industrial area and a small harbour (something I've always loved!)

Status Report

Benchwork: 95% complete

Tracklaying: 10% complete

Wiring: 5% complete

Scenery: 0% complete

So we're all familiar with my stance on the present buttonry and boondoggles already on the market.  They're the epitome of 1989 technology, and even then, the technology was 10-20 years old.  AKA, it's obsolete, the technology is practically an antique.  When I see manufacturers investing money into things like the new DT402R series, I groan.

Last month I described in words the laminating process.  I took a few pictures the other day when I was cutting up two sheets of masonite hardboard into strips for the spline helix that I am building.  This is my method and there may be others but this is how I do it. Updated 6 Sep with additional pictures.

I'm always too optimistic. As feared, a bunch of Real Life happened for the past two months, and I've made no progress beyond tweaking the benchwork and lighting a bit. But it wasn't all down time as far as railroading is concerned: we took a three week camping trip around northern Ontario, ending in Cochrane for the Ontario Northland Railway Historical & Technical Society Convention.

On the way, we spent most of a week at Neys Provincial Park, on the beautiful Lake Superior north shore -- and right by the Canadian Pacific mainline: