10-18-2009, 09:46 AM
** I have not been to bussy here for awile. Their is a reason for this. That attic switching layout I have, that replaced my large basement layout, well I can't handle going back and forth, even if it has a purpose to deliver, and pick up railroad cars. I got to go round, and round! This necessitated a rebuild. My switcher layout was 2, 2'X8', of 3/8" plywood surfaceses. Put together longways to make a 2' X 16' switching layout. It was stiffened up and held together with 2" X6" X 8' boards. Their was not table legs or even table bases because of the 4 shelf units I have along that wall of the attic were used to support the layout. Well that is gone now!
** The new layout has kept the 2' X 16' deminsions, and location of that section but added to it. Their is a 3' X 2'6" addition. Also another 2' X 8' section. There is a 4' X 4'6" section and a removiable 2' X 2'6" section. I have made all new table supports as bases for this thing. That meant alot of carpentry work, noise, and sawdust. I did all the cutting and alot of the assembly in the basement. All the tables were made, then brought up to the attic where the legs were added. My table tops, to save cutting of large plywood sections, don't match my tables. The supplier of the wood products would give me one free cut of a 4X8 sheet of plywood with the purchase. This determined alot of the table top sizes. The only cutting of pylwood I did was a section, provided for me by the suppiler that was 4' X 3'6". I took a 1' length off, then cut the remainder in half. Also this 1' X 4' length had to be cut down to a 1' X 2'6" piece. This when added to one of the halfed two, 2' X 2'6" pieces became the 3' X 2'6" addition metioned above. The other 2' X 2'6" piece became the removiable section. it has all came together nicely. This is not a big layout surface, but it fits the attic. Also the tables have supplied so much underneath storage that the first thing my wife did was order draperies the cover from table top to floor. Of corse I get to put them on. This is what it looks like now with the two mainline loops added.
frank
PS. See you next saturday at the show in East Rutherford NJ.
** The new layout has kept the 2' X 16' deminsions, and location of that section but added to it. Their is a 3' X 2'6" addition. Also another 2' X 8' section. There is a 4' X 4'6" section and a removiable 2' X 2'6" section. I have made all new table supports as bases for this thing. That meant alot of carpentry work, noise, and sawdust. I did all the cutting and alot of the assembly in the basement. All the tables were made, then brought up to the attic where the legs were added. My table tops, to save cutting of large plywood sections, don't match my tables. The supplier of the wood products would give me one free cut of a 4X8 sheet of plywood with the purchase. This determined alot of the table top sizes. The only cutting of pylwood I did was a section, provided for me by the suppiler that was 4' X 3'6". I took a 1' length off, then cut the remainder in half. Also this 1' X 4' length had to be cut down to a 1' X 2'6" piece. This when added to one of the halfed two, 2' X 2'6" pieces became the 3' X 2'6" addition metioned above. The other 2' X 2'6" piece became the removiable section. it has all came together nicely. This is not a big layout surface, but it fits the attic. Also the tables have supplied so much underneath storage that the first thing my wife did was order draperies the cover from table top to floor. Of corse I get to put them on. This is what it looks like now with the two mainline loops added.
frank
PS. See you next saturday at the show in East Rutherford NJ.
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