Magilla’s first layout build.


I decided not to pull the track to make the cuts. It time to nail it down. Oh if I could see. I’ll probably spray the track before I ballast, what color, rust brown.?
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Can someone explain to me the benefit of L-girder construction?
  • The "L" part makes it much stronger and stiffer than just a single 1x4, or 1x3.
  • The inside of the short part of the L gives an area where things can be attached by putting the fastener up from the bottom.
  • The top side of the short part gives a wider working area when attaching things from the top.
  • The L-girders are flexible in that they can be made to fit any size or shape of a layout by simply adding an additional cross-piece pieces or lengthening them here and there. Nothing says they have to be assembled at 90 degrees so one can put a member in a 45 and get some non-square things going.
  • Scenic mounting points can be put anywhere.
  • one can do scenery below rail grade.
 
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Progress. Need more lumber.
 

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Everything braced up, I’m happy with it, time to go to the other end.
 

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A little progress today got all the cuts finished I’m gonna have to go back to the lumberyard and get a few too 2x4. I need a few short Joists to keep my zero elevation in places.
 

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Not sure what strip your talking about.
I believe he's talking about where you have your overhead line marked out on the main plywood sheet. Where you have the blocks sitting for support of the overhead high-line trackage.

And, I'm pretty sure you're NOT going to cut that strip out of your main plywood sheet, but rather, either use a separate strip of plywood to support the high line trackage, or else truss and girder bridges to support it as shown in the book. Correct? ;)
 



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