Construction finally has begun on my new layout. So I will try to keep a blog as construction progresses. The benchwork was done by a good friend of mine who did an excellent job and I placed the 2" foam boards today. The layout was posted on the Layout design forum and got good feedback from many users. I still not totally happy with the yard, but since that is the last thing I am going to build, I can change it later. Once all the foam is set, I will start laying track, hoping to complete the main line first and then doing all the branches.
Here is a link to the pictures[G2:51797]
Here is a picture of the benchwork
That is the cleanest
That is the cleanest benchwork I have ever seen. You must be happy with that. Too bad you are covering it up with all that foam!
Boy am I jealous- looks like you have such a nice area to work with.
Looking forward to watching this come along.
Benchwork
Yes, I am very happy with the benchwork. It is very solid and had some shelfs that add to overall structure of the bench. It also gives me plenty of space to store all my train stuff. As I said at the begining, the benchwork was done by a friend whose hobby is to work with wood and buidl furniture. I may post sometime a bar he did for me long time ago. This coming weekend I will put the DCC wiring bus around the whole benchwork, so when i place the track will be very easy to connect it to the DCC command station.
Tomas