Howdy all,

Been a while since my last update, but mostly cause not much has happened. Finally got all the shelf standards installed, and brackets up. I’m in process of mounting a 2×2x15 piece of wood to each bracket. This will help for support of the top plywood, make mounting that easier, give me place to drill hole or two for cables, and give me a little for under benchwork electronics.

Today I picked up some 1/4″ plywood from lowes to start seeing how the top bencwork will look.

Well, I ran into one of these “It looks better on paper than in real life moments.”

It’s the turn-around on the bottom of the layout. The two levels of 36″ deep shelving just isn’t going to work as I hoped. It’s too deep for the shelf brackets, the top level seems to swallow up the lower, and it just doesn’t look good.

So now I’m trying to figure out what to do. The obvious solution is to just do a point to point layout.

I’m thinking of putting small yard at each level’s end now to simulate the deliver of freight from one city to the next.

The “mountain pass” area with remain on the lower level but only on the north wall, with staging behind.

The west wall would then be turned into the 2nd yard.

One crazy idea could to swap the office doors to swing outward into the front room and build two removable bridge to span the doors and then just run a small maybe 5″ deep section along that east wall back to helix. If I wanted to keep the option to run continuously.

Hmm… What to do…