Over the weekend there was a little bit of work in the layout room interspersed with gardening, shopping trips and a trip to the airport to collect our latest Japanese student (16 year old boy who is here for just two weeks).
Most notably was the making of two sets of wall supports, so the section of baseboard I have (left over from the lower level storage yards on my old layout) is now up and supported on proper supports and not 2 sets of 3 beer crates on end.
On one of the shopping trips I bought a second cordless drill (Black & Decker 18v) as the one I currently use (Ryobi 14.4v) is well over 15 years old and I am always charging the batteries. At least I can now have one with a drill and one with a pozi-drive driver. I have the countersinking bit in a hand drill (I know some will will suggest getting an all-in-one drill/countersink bit, but I drill holes to various depths). Also got some more timber, screws and glue. I recall that when I did my last layout the timber was relatively cheap compared to the screws etc, but it is the opposite now!
One job I had to do before installing any supports was to remove one section of the Pinex panelling put up a couple of days ago and remove the pencil left on the window sill. The pencil could be seen from outside!
The photo (above) shows the huge grain silos built by Brendon Groufsky for the old PFE portable layout. This is not where they are going to end up, but were being used to see how buildings will be used to cover up the branch line climb behind the main town. Two F units are sitting on an approximation of where the branch will be, on it’s climb from the mainline junction to the top level of the centre portion of the layout. At this point it is exactly at 2.5%, but I may be able to drop this down to 2% and still achieve an upper level about 10-12” (250 – 300mm) above the base level.
I still have to sort out a way to cross the small door to the garage where, we as people will have to enter and exit. There will be tracks on two levels across this section so a simple liftout section may not work. Page 29 of Tony Koester’s “Designing & Building Multi-Deck Model Railroads” (Kalmbach Books, 2008) shows a gate arrangement that has two levels of track on it. This may be the route to follow.
The photo (above) shows the huge grain silos built by Brendon Groufsky for the old PFE portable layout. This is not where they are going to end up, but were being used to see how buildings will be used to cover up the branch line climb behind the main town. Two F units are sitting on an approximation of where the branch will be, on it’s climb from the mainline junction to the top level of the centre portion of the layout. At this point it is exactly at 2.5%, but I may be able to drop this down to 2% and still achieve an upper level about 10-12” (250 – 300mm) above the base level.
I still have to sort out a way to cross the small door to the garage where, we as people will have to enter and exit. There will be tracks on two levels across this section so a simple liftout section may not work. Page 29 of Tony Koester’s “Designing & Building Multi-Deck Model Railroads” (Kalmbach Books, 2008) shows a gate arrangement that has two levels of track on it. This may be the route to follow.
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