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I completely demolished my old 4'x8' and started work on a new u-shaped 7'x9.5'x10' in late July. I built the benchwork and got 3rd PlanIt to design the layout. After MANY iterations, I finally got a plan I liked and that fit the space done about 2-3 weeks ago, and since then I've got about a 1/3 of the sub-roadbed installed. It's way fun! I figure I'll do a bit more sub-roadbed done in the next two weeks before I go on vacation, and then start laying roadbed and track on the mainline on the parts along the wall that'll be a bit harder to reach for construction later on. Spent most of today building a Walther's trestle/deck bridge that'll carry the track across the window in the room, so I can still access the window. <br /> <br />I'm also converting to DCC, and have about 1/3 of my older locos converted already, plus two recent Atlas engines I bought that come with decoders already, and two plug-in decoders ready to go into some recent Stewart locos I bought. <br /> <br />I figure the first trains will start running on the new layout sometime in mid-late November -- at that point I hope to have enough track down to make it worth it.
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