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I used to have an around the walls layout, 32 by 11 feet, all with foam on simple wood rectangular boxes two feet wide and eight feet long. You may also cut your foam and use it only under the track and road/town areas, to save foam cost. That's what I did, and it worked great. Very easy to use risers (I think mine were about 18 inches apart), to build grades into it, too. It's also super easy to lay track on foam. When I tore it down, sadly, it was easy to take up with a plastic dry wall knife, without damaging foam. I had used wood glue to hold it down, and it was solid. Foam's light weight and track laying ease make it a super train surface.
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