What will run on the layout?

Today worked out the consists I will run the first show. That one is planned end of October 2016. Made lists earlier (2 years ago) so I have a pretty good idea what I could do. Main focus will be the 80's with 4 and 6-axle SP power with a occasional UP:

My wife experimented with sisal rope as part of making trees for the layout. More about that later:

More benchwork

Middle of the center pieces:

The place where the center plates will be:

Measuring up:

Too low!:

Filling up with a thin piece plywood:

And spiked and glued:

Level!:

The middle center piece:

Hole for lining it up:

Spiking:

Gluing:

Second batch:

Build:

Lining both sides up:

And both pieces ready and drying:

Preparing more circle pieces:

Dry:

Both seperate pieces:

More to come!

Started benchwork.

Start building the two head ends of the layout modules (halves).

Start gluing:

Dryed:

Cut to fit:

Bolted together. Clamps are temporarely:

Design V2:

Christmas

Maybe we start with Christmas if bored? Who knowes.....

Merry Christmas!

Grtz, Ronald.

Redesign

Did some redesign this morning. This way I have only 2 staging tracks but with very long capacity. The first will be 5 meters, the second 4,5. It should fit the overall look better.

Drawing in the living room:

The new design:

In detail:

More to come!

More drawings

Little update about the way I want to build the benchwork: