As you can see our initial layout will be a figure eight. I thought this would be the easiest to do for our first project.
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Here I have added some foam for future scenery. We are using Woodland Scenic's landscape scenery on our layout. So I am using foam to build elevations and foam popcorn to form bumpy landscape. Will use Woodland Scenic's plaster cloth to form the surface. However, that will come later. Next process will be to lay the track and see how the train runs on the layout. If that works OK, then we can proceed to do more landscaping. |
Oct 8 2007: Over the next few weeks and month’s Jeri and I will attempt to build our first model railroad layout in a suitcase. Yep, you heard right, a suitcase. It all started several years ago as we were at a model train show in Portland. We saw these really cool model train layouts in a suitcase. The idea really intrigued Jeri and anything to do with model railroading that your wife likes to boot, works for me.
We really didn’t do anything about it at the time. We were working on our Garden Railroad. That is still an interest, but we haven’t done as much with it recently. I need to get the decoders installed in our G scale locomotives and just haven’t done it….someday…! However, back the suitcase, we were at the model train show last February and saw the suitcase Z scale trains again and thought…let’s do it this time. So for the last several month’s we have been collecting trains and scenery parts as we move toward starting the assembly. In this blog we will track the steps we use, noting what has worked and hasn’t worked.