My drill-spun, floral-wire & ground foam pines are anything but groundbreaking (I even use a T-pin in the foam for planting), but I thought I'd share my "pining away" process anyway.

hi to all , new to this trying to find out as much as poss as i go on , i am currently making baseboard then i am putting 1/2" plywood on top , i would like to put sheet of polystyrene on next but as the layout is permanent i would like to pin it through the foam rather than glue it as i am sure to have problems and dont want to be ripping track up because it has been glued and messing the sheets up, has anyone any ideas on what to do or am i doing it completely wrong.a link to website or something showing exactly how to do it would be brill or is there something in this mag

Some months ago I got the bright idea that I wanted to operate the motor of my Atlas turntable using a decoder. So I installed an inexpensive loco decoder, configured it and found it worked pretty well. But it didn't take too long to find that selecting the turntable on my Digitrax Zephyr got old pretty fast. Having the simplicity of a button on my control panel started to appeal. But the one nice aspect of having it controlled by the throttle was variable speed and reversability.

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I have seen this talked about before. I am getting ready (very close) to placing my subroadbed onto the second deck of my layout. I am considering going with 1/2 inch or 3/4 inch 5 or 7 ply sheets of ply wood. Over this I am going to place cork sheeting I have purchased. I am going to use this in the yards, but I am also going to cut strips for the road bed of of the mainline and sidings. But I have been considering possibly doubling this up by putting 2 layers of cork.