biL:
Footprint dimensions: 20" x 42"
Height: 37" not including casters
The very bottom shelf is 3/4" plywood, for a bit of extra strength for the casters.
The other shelves are 1/2" plywood.
The sides and back on the lower sections are from either 1/2 or 3/4 plywood, mainly what was left over. These are mostly for strength.
All of the white boards are 1 x 4s.
The vertical "posts" are 1 x 4s ripped to a 2" piece and a 1.5" piece, then glued and screwed together to make the corner.
The shelves are are made into "boxes" by adding the sides and backs as seen in the photo, then the corner posts are screwed to them. Really quite simple to build, although it did take some time because I drilled pilot holes for every hole to make sure I didn't split the wood.
And you are correct: I made them so they could be parked underthe layout - even with bottles of WS ballast and ground foam on the top shelf.
cnw1961 Wrote:Gary S Wrote:… then load everything on the carts, and after that, maybe the room will stay clean!
You are joking, right? 
I sure hope not! These things will be my savior in the train building!
Charlie B Wrote:It has been bugging me, but I keep unpacking. I need shelves but hate to make them because what the layout doesn't use will go when it is completed, so I just need to convince myself to not look down.
Charlie, I still think a cart for your scenery supplies would be a great thing for you. That would give you a place to keep everything together as you go through the scenery process, and you could just roll it around to where you need it. I'm looking forward to this thing saving me many steps, and to negate the anguish of having to hunt for stuff I need.
Really nice additions to the train room, Gary! And thanks for all the size info ... if I can dig the landlord's table saw out of the back of the garage one day soon (with my daughter's help) I may build a couple for myself!
Gary,
Look great....
I give it a week!!!!
Keep up the great work!!!
Hi Gary.
It sure gives you a real sense of accomplishment when you get it cleaned and organized, even if it only lasts for a day.
Looking great
Charlie
Oh. I see what you did there. You just moved all the mess over to the other half of the room just to hide it from us. Snap a picture and say, "Hey look how
clean and organized I am!"
I'm on to you man.
Hey Charlie, I know what you mean, but I am seriously hoping that the carts will save the day. Perhaps "the mess" that seems to accumulate on a daily basis will remain on the carts, and not on the layout shelves!
Tetters, for real, the entire room is clean.
Both sides of the room are orderly and the layout shelves are clean except for the area where I am working on the new bridge. Now, there are some things in boxes on the floor, left over electrical parts, some cork and track, a ladder, some cardboard from light fixture boxes, and stuff I may need later. All of the stuff I had in the room that was for distant-future use was put up in the attic. As I told Charlie, I think these carts are going to be the cat's meow on preventing the layout from becoming cluttered with tools and materials.
Hey, the shelves are so clean that I even put up the removable bridge across the door and let a train run several complete loops last night! That's about 170 feet of running!
Hey, you know I kid right?
Gary S Wrote:Hey, the shelves are so clean that I even put up the removable bridge across the door and let a train run several complete loops last night! That's about 170 feet of running!
I believe some congrats are in order for that bit of news! Well done sir!
Gary,
Congrats on the test run....where is the video???
Or at least some pictures???
Tetters, I knew you were kidding!
Greg, as for the train run, it actually isn't the first. Did that probably 6 weeks ago. But no video. Somewhere in the previous pages of this thread are the photos of the first running.
Last night, for the bridge I am working on in the "scratchbuild" thread, I layed the bridge on the bents and connected the rails with rail joiners. Then I ran a track cleaner train around a few times. There was definite sputtering involved, but once the construction dust was knocked off the rails, away she went!
In the layout room photo above, you can see the train sitting in the yard on the right side of the photo.
(Photo 1) I see you've managed to run the cart into the wall already!
That looks nice ... almost too nice!
My former wife would have said that looks "suspiciously clean ... what are you hiding?!! Did you buy another one of those ridiculously expensive little gold trains?" 8-)
BR60103 Wrote:(Photo 1) I see you've managed to run the cart into the wall already!
Errr.... you talking about the broken up stuff on the floor? Actually that is some 3/4" foam that I pulled off the layout where there was a rise on the old layout. Decided I didn't want it now.... so pulled it up and threw it on the floor! And today, decided to use it for some static grass and scenery practice. I got some static grass at the LHS today, came home amd loaded up the GERN GrassBlaster, and commenced laying down some grass. Then I added some bushes, here are a couple of photos. So far so good, but I think I need a bigger screen in the Blaster because although the grass was standing up, it could have been better. I didn't cut out the entire lid like DocWayne did. And since capacitance is dependent on the size of the capacitor plates, bigger is better. May even double up on the screen to see what it does.
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