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Track is now being cut to size and laid. Black underlay is Woodland Scenics Foam sheet, cut and glued with their ‘Tack Glue’ to the baseboard.

A small tweak on the terminus – after seeing the track in place, and getting some sound advice, the platforms were simply going to be far too narrow, relative to their length, so the terminus has been ‘rationalised’ a little to allow for two main platforms to reach 3″ wide.

Sizing up the track in place on the boards…

Cables for the layout DCC Bus and Droppers Multicore security cable,2x18awg,PVC152m (the grey cable) – will be used for droppers and connecting accessory decoders to motors, etc. Eco wire 12awg 65/30 red 600V (and black) – will be the main and accessory bus wires(from Radionics)

Construction will be softwood frame, 9mm ply boards, with the loop boards set 4″ lower than the terminus board and using Woodland Scenics 2% inclines to close the gap. I’m also planning to use Woodlands track underlay rolls, strips and sheets.

Ok, here we go!! Boards arrived this morning for the terminus / yards and the fiddle loop incline. Decided to start a thread here to keep me under pressure So here is the latest / current plan. I’m pretty much happy with the terminus and yards, pending seeing some track actually down… the curves will likely widen out to 3′ radius where I can…. For now I am building the top section of the plan and will very gradually work my way into a loop over time. I reckon the track and wiring complexity of the terminus and yards alone will keep me busy for 2012! And here we have the current ‘view’ of the layout – some nice Ply and strips of 2×1 and 2×2

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