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Posted by Dave on Sat Feb 13 22:56:40 2016 Here's the latest update on my HO 'Long Island Sound Connecting Ry.' layout. I've started gluing down Woodland Scenics roadbed sheets rather than roadbed strips immediately under the track. Since the Oyster Bay section is almost all yard tracks and a couple of sidings, with no real elevations, ballast shoulders will be pretty much non-existent. It made more sense to lay the track on the roadbed sheets and use cinders in the yard tracks and dirt between the rails on the sidings. LIRR-brown ballast will be used on the Locust Valley roadbed and approaching the Oyster Bay station:  The white "line" seen in the middle of the table shows the edge of 1/4" foam glued on top of 2" foam subroadbed, covered by the roadbed sheets. T-Pins are used to hold the roadbed sheet in place while the adhesive dries. The area to the immediate right of the package of Atlas curves is where the Oyster Bay Lumber Co. will be located. I cut away the 1/4" foam from this area so the lumberyard siding is lower in elevation than the rest of the layout. The edge of the table will eventually get a masonite fasica. Note how you don't see any white showing in middle of the farthest right roadbed sheet. That's because the elevation change there is supposed to be more gradual; I bent the sheet over the edge of the cut-out foam so there's actually a slight slope there. Where the white is showing is where I'll install creosote-stained railroad ties to represent landscape ties, as if the lumber company installed them to minimize erosion. The siding down to to the lumber yard will start dropping from the turnout about 90 scale feet down to "ground" level. I'm using a Woodland Scenics 2% riser to gradually drop the 1/4" elevation difference. Here you can see the riser with the 1/4" height of the riser up against the white foam, descending to the ground level on the left:  Fitting and gluing down the rest of the roadbed sheets will take me another couple of weeks and then I head out to LA for a few days. I hope to start laying track in early March. |
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