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riogrande5761's explanation is GREAT. If you watch trackside Scenery's video, he does explain this as well at around 9:56 in the video...

My wife and I took a trip out to Utah and stopped at the Greely Museum. She was there. We also saw her at Timonium a year later.

Your comment on the leaning Tower of Pisa; I now understand what is meant by needing to level the helix. Thank you. :)

Have laid quite a bit of plaster gauze - into my 3rd 5lb roll now which I hope is enough but have a 4th roll if need be: Pretty...

Helix is up on risers and I've leveled it. The sheet shown is how I calculated the thickness of the level supports as they go around at...

Main yard going in. First thing was to get the centerlines marked based on the geometry of the turnouts, which include a Walthers #6...

Laid Peco code 83 track on the mainline cork cut and test hung two parts of vinyl flashing the curved area's: I"m using...

All the mainline cork is down Added hardboard for backdrops and finished cork Finally getting the odd day here and there to...

I'll try to get this thread up to the present. Here is some more in the chronological progress: The mainline has reached a point that...

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Next the staging yard was put in with Homasote and code 100 flex with Peco large turnouts. I saved all my track from my last layout...

I began erecting benchwork at the end of 2019 after I finished the basement DIHY and it had passed inspection. Here are the first...

I live in northern Virginia and the Home Depot stores here carry Homasote.

That's it basically. If you build the helix and the put it on the floor it would lean like the leaning tower of Pizza. So you need to...

When it came time to build it it made no sense that the risers all had the same base, that's when Joey said I needed to level it. I was...