What's happening on your layout?

[rgeiter]

Just purchased 16 sheets of sanded 1/2 inch plywood today. (Ouch!) Delivery Tuesday!

 

[RhB Michael]

Ouch is right!

 

[Mopac Junkie]

Just purchased 16 sheets of sanded 1/2 inch plywood today. (Ouch!) Delivery Tuesday!

I was shocked that a year ago 1/4” plywood was almost $40 a sheet at Home Depot. I don’t even want to know what you paid for 1/2” at today’s price

 

[rgeiter]

I was shocked that a year ago 1/4” plywood was almost $40 a sheet at Home Depot. I don’t even want to know what you paid for 1/2” at today’s price

I’ll tell you. I paid about $43 a sheet with “free” delivery.

 

[logandsawman]

I was shocked that a year ago 1/4” plywood was almost $40 a sheet at Home Depot. I don’t even want to know what you paid for 1/2” at today’s price

The price of wood is very unpredictable. A project I completed last summer came in 40% cheaper than my estimate, a month later prices were back up again.

 

[Mopac Junkie]

Doing some old school DC wiring

 

[steelwheels]

Hello
Well organized, did some of that myself this weekend. The layout I'm building will have 2 reverse loops. The first one is finished and train-tested.
The track used, curves are ridged, I lay out the route, & screw mount it. Come back pull it all up, tape & paint it.

Go back with the roadbed, as it dries, solder drops to every section. Reinstall the track, wire & train test. The models I see on your layout have me thinking I'm seeing N scale.

I removed my N scale last July and started on this one. I also see you're a Santa Fe fan like myself. I have some pretty nice cabooses, well detailed you could be interested in. Also, have just about every GHQ vehicle ever sold.

Just saying

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Pep

 

[steelwheels]

4 more feet to go!

Got some prices on plywood yesterday. Good Lord! Expensive!! It’s gonna be a while until that project happens.View attachment 213120View attachment 213121

Hello
Not one to nick-pick, however from experience .............. finish the ceiling. I had open rafters & hated it, thought it would never bother me.


I left the I beam & duct exposed, keeping an industrial flavor to the room


Just saying Pep

 

[rgeiter]

Not going to worry about the ceiling. Maybe I’ll do a drop ceiling someday, maybe.

 

[rgeiter]

Plywood is definitely expensive. I'm not sure what it's going for, but have you looked into something like OSB?

Yes I did. If I were going to use foam, then I might have used it. Foam is stupid expensive too!

 

[Marlin338MX]

That's why I used plywood with cork roadbed instead of foam. I feel like I saved myself a lot of money that way.

 

[RhB Michael]

I think I can call it finished. At least for now. The last thing I did after this photos was to attach the far left platform and freight room to the rest of the structure. I had to do this on the layout to get everything lined up properly before the glue set.

Now I'm waiting for 55 conifers to show up and a platform extension that will be placed on the right.

 

[rgeiter]

That's why I used plywood with cork roadbed instead of foam. I feel like I saved myself a lot of money that way.

Exactly!

 

[KB02]

Been laying track like a mad man!
(was going to insert a "crazy man" gif here, but after looking at a few examples with Gary Busey and William DeFoe in my Google search, I felt a little scared, and dirty...)

With spring in the air and summer time employment ramping up, I won't have a ton of time to spend on the layout. I'd like to have trains running so I can play when the mood strikes me.

 

[RhB Michael]

Now it's really finished. New platform built, new parking lot, and plenty of trees. Schwarzburg even repaved a short stretch of road to the station to get the bumps out.

 

[PMW]

Unless the forecast changes...nothing this weekend .

I'm working on benchwork and do the cutting outside, the weather has not cooperated much since I started this in February (perhaps unsurprisingly).

On the up side, the layout's coffers aren't too bad since I've been putting the money I would have spent aside until a nice weekend

 

[logandsawman]

Building roads and foundations...

Upper left side of the layout is where the action is, staging on the right. The lift out section rests on the floor when I am not running trains, a good reason to keep the floor clean!



Dave LASM

 

[Len Turner]

Layout to-do list for weekend and next week - get 2nd 2'x 4' benchwork module assembled and leveled, and get backdrop done.

 

[Rico]

Dug into the scrap bin again and came up with some tanks for the pulp mill.
The white pumps are spare bits from Walthers spine cars I think.

 

[TLOC]

Since 9/2022 I’ve done nothing on my transload facility. This morning I pulled up 30” of the track work from the right of the pit to start the rebuild of the facility.

I have replaced the wood ties with Central Valley tie strips.

The 1-2-3 blocks and soda cans are weighing down the tie strips while the glue dries