Construction on the Trinity Sabine & Gulf

[Loblolly Logger]

The Trinity Sabine & Gulf RR and the Neches River Lumber Co. is an HO scale layout depicting a typical East Texas lumber mill and short line railroad sometime in the late 1930's, early 1940's or so. The layout will include a lumber mill complex, railroad shops, several support and related industries and a few town buildings. I started planning this thing almost a year ago and began construction about six weeks ago, so we're going to play a little catch up with my posts. First, the layout is constructed in four sections so that if we move, the layout can go with us and not in the dumpster... Second, I can move the wider sections around to make it easier to work on them. So, here is the basic track plan, which of course is subject to change...



The construction of the first two sections are 3/4" foam insulation sheathing on a 1x2 and 1/3 grid framework. I chose not to use plywood decking to keep the weight down. These two sections will be wall mounted on shelf brackets.





I prewired the DCC track power, 12vdc & 16vac accessory power busses.



For time being the sections are resting on top of shelving while I work on them, but they'll eventually be wall mounted on shelf brackets.

If you'd like, you can check out my blog - link in my signature.There's more photos and stuff there.

Your comments and critique are always welcome!
Thanks for looking!