UPDATE: construction goes slow.Spending most of my free time helping daughter handle the disposition of her grandmothers estate (Bonnie's Mom). Got the grocery store sold, now working on the house to get it ready for sale.
That leaves only Sundays to work on the new empire. The back and side walls are in positioned and filed, the front, well, lets just say I'm still playing with the shape of the "U" inset. At the rate things are going I think I can start the filling with "DG" in mid December. I've taken a few pix and will post them when I have something worth looking at.
Tom Trigg
Good to hear its moving along, was wondering as I havent read you here in a long while. Are you going to make it to the SWGRS in pomona in two weeks?
Have fun with your trains
Planning on Sunday.
Just a quick update. Sorry about being so late on keeping up on this.
The cinderblock walls are in place and about half of the fourty-two (42) yards of decomposed granite is in place. Bit more "pricey" than I had planned on, but think well worth the cost. Also a bit heavy. Taking me two weeks to move a truckload (4.5~5 yards) and tampping each layer into position. Money also says one truckload per month.
In the mean time, I've set up a folded figure eight on the upper patio. So still running trains while new layout is under construction.
Brother, you are not alone. I am about to start my final layout (after a number in my younger days) and it WILL be table top in nature. I am now 75, and that bending over stuff is" for the birds". My first layout was mostly on the ground with a yard on a table top and as a result, some pretty steep up grades, but I had the right of way length to keep the worst of them at 4% and streight.
My next railroad perched its tracks on top of a fence around the yard. with a few small table tops, and was very successful, but had to come down for a move from a ranch into town.
Since then I have started 2 on the ground layouts, both of which fell to the moving monster, and each of which showed me age was creeping up on my back and knees.
I also had 2 around the living room layouts, which did not compete well with the housecats, who considered the right of way to be cat walking areas,, and had no qualms with clearing trains off the tracks to facilitate thier so using the shelves! This activity was very hard on the fallen cars! Now I have more wrecks than working rolling stock!
Now, I thought, where could damaged mdels fit in with operating ones? Well every train museum I have seen had some cars under restoration, so my solution quickly became a museum layout, with a longer than average (for a museum) main line and shop areas.
Construction will begin this year, finances willing. It will be at waist level! Wish an old man luck! Thanks.
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