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THANK YOU....AWSOME!!!. I'm going to print this all out and do further reseach. I've reached the age where I don't do too many things without doing so good research and knowing what I'm getting myself into. All of you that replied so far I thank you very very much in your help, suggestions and opinions. I like the look and style of the BNSF engines, but my scene I'm trying to do is midwestern US. I live in Illinois and the train engines I see mostly the operate in this area is Northfolk Southern. So I'm not opposed to using them. My plan for my model railroad is to have a decent railyard, (not too big), a town of the era, and possibly a farm on the outskirts with a grain elevator, livestock pens. Reasons for the trains to go there. The bridges are my transition point between the town and farm. I've been on Walthers website and have written down buildings that go with my era and theme. I hope this give you all some kind of visualization on what I'm thinking to do. It's not going to be modeled after a specific town or place in real life, just a general freelance thing of the area from that time period. Ok, since I haven't even built my table yet I guess what I really want to know first is, is there any specific type of plywood to use for the surface?? Is one kind better to use than another? One thing I know I want to do is have elavations off the table, to have bridges/tresils. I was thinking of having them go over a stream. How do you elevate the track up?? My dad use to take a jigsaw and cut the plywood along each side of track and slowly raise it up. Is there other options instead of doing that?? What do you do with the gap that is them made?? I can't find illustrations or documentation that explains how to do this. It's probably been dicusessed in these forums, if so and you know exactly where there at, can anyone post the link to them?? Like I said I'm am a newcomer to the hobby, and I am very excited about getting started and getting into this so you can imagine I have a ton of questions, some basic things I already know. Please continue providing me help, I'm lovin it so far and it's greatly appricated.
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