02-01-2010, 12:42 PM
Shaun - my wife like the look of your shelving solution, as did I, once she realized the backdrop and framing would hide the uprights. She also liked the idea of an upper shelf above the lighting valance to hold decorative train items.
Here's a picture of the wharf/landing end of the railroad in our previous home, in the garage back in Kelso. You can see the 4" shelf in front of the layout. The layout is 14" deep, so an 18" bracket worked very well in this case. The narrow shelf was attached with screws up from beneath the brackets to overhang by an inch or so, which kept the layout from resting against the wall (room for a backdrop...someday that never came). Made a nice place to set uncoupling devices, beverages, tape measure - as you can see.
Got a good plan...putting it into XtrkCad is a challenge, but fun. I'll post when it's worth sharing.
Galen
Here's a picture of the wharf/landing end of the railroad in our previous home, in the garage back in Kelso. You can see the 4" shelf in front of the layout. The layout is 14" deep, so an 18" bracket worked very well in this case. The narrow shelf was attached with screws up from beneath the brackets to overhang by an inch or so, which kept the layout from resting against the wall (room for a backdrop...someday that never came). Made a nice place to set uncoupling devices, beverages, tape measure - as you can see.
Got a good plan...putting it into XtrkCad is a challenge, but fun. I'll post when it's worth sharing.
Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!