The Mogollon Railroad

[nachoman]

Well, it looks like I am going to have to move the layout from it's current location in a spare bedroom to my workshop outside. The layout is 4x8, and the outside workshop is only 7x7. Yikes! I'd rather not tear the whole thing apart and start over, so I am thinking of re-configuring it as an around-the walls shelf layout. I'd basically save the town and yard as-is, and then re-configure the rest. I've drawn it out and I think it will work. The shelf will be about 5 ft off the ground, allowing room underneath for my workbench and storage. I'm tall, so this is not an issue, but I can see needing a stool to aid in my modeling efforts.

In preparation, I insulated the ceiling in my workshop and built a small evaporative cooler. It's the hottest part of the summer here, and so far those two improvements make the room tolerable. I haven't decided yet if I will keep some standard gauge, or just go with all HOn3 right now with maybe short piece of inoperable standard gauge just to show an interchange. If I didn't include standard gauge, I would have more room for scenery and open up more operation potential with the HOn3.