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 Reno: No matter how anxious you are to get to the layout FINI***HE ROOM FIRST!! I suggest you use the minimum amount of wood possible. The metal foam combination mentioned above sounds as if it would avoid most of your areas heat and humidity problems. For a '30s layout code 70 rail is appropriate with some larger code on heavily used main line. I hand lay my track so I can't speak to the merits of various manufactureres products. Stay with #6 or larger turnouts. As to the timber trestle, I STRONGLY suggest you have a go at building one from scratch. Such bridges are really only one bent (group of support beams) repeated again and again. Klamback's Bridges & Trestles shows you how to design and build such constructions step by step. However, with the humidity in your area you will likely want to use plastic materials rather than wood. Another thing, a wood trestle would at most have code 70 rail and more likely code 55 so consider that in your decisions on rail coding. Sorry, I can't help you with the roundhouse. I recall a thread on the subject, you might want to search the forum index. Good Luck and welcome back Randy
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