Comments on: Nick’s next railroad part 1 http://www.polyweb.com/dans_rr/blog/index.php/archives/177 Stories about building my model railroad and other things found along the tracks Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:06:22 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Daniel Swearingen http://www.polyweb.com/dans_rr/blog/index.php/archives/177/comment-page-1#comment-16675 Daniel Swearingen Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:53:33 +0000 http://www.polyweb.com/dans_rr/blog/?p=177#comment-16675 Hi Mike, I'm going to answer in a long-winded way in a series of blog posts. Thanks, Dan Hi Mike,

I’m going to answer in a long-winded way in a series of blog posts.

Thanks,
Dan

]]> By: Mike http://www.polyweb.com/dans_rr/blog/index.php/archives/177/comment-page-1#comment-16670 Mike Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:26:57 +0000 http://www.polyweb.com/dans_rr/blog/?p=177#comment-16670 Dan, a couple questions for you. I recently got back into model rr after only doing it as a kid...and those were the days when we'd run them like racecars to see if we could get train cars to tip off the track around corners! Anyway, I re-entered the hobby world putting my layout on a 4X8 sheet of plywood, but felt it was too cumbersome to get around it, and didn't leave much room to decorate scenery on it. So, I started from scratch and made a L-shape layout in a corner so far. It's about 6 feet long on one wall and 8 feet on the adjacent wall. Here's my question. I see that you use cork roadbed under your track. But What do you use for scenery ground? What I mean is this: do you glue the scenery to the plywood base, or do you use a styrofoam, or that puddy compound? If you use sytrofoam or something else, does it completely cover the plywood base, or do you use it only to attach certain scenery like a peg board? Do these make sense? Please help...any helpful hints would be great!!! Dan, a couple questions for you. I recently got back into model rr after only doing it as a kid…and those were the days when we’d run them like racecars to see if we could get train cars to tip off the track around corners!

Anyway, I re-entered the hobby world putting my layout on a 4X8 sheet of plywood, but felt it was too cumbersome to get around it, and didn’t leave much room to decorate scenery on it.

So, I started from scratch and made a L-shape layout in a corner so far. It’s about 6 feet long on one wall and 8 feet on the adjacent wall.

Here’s my question.

I see that you use cork roadbed under your track. But What do you use for scenery ground? What I mean is this: do you glue the scenery to the plywood base, or do you use a styrofoam, or that puddy compound?

If you use sytrofoam or something else, does it completely cover the plywood base, or do you use it only to attach certain scenery like a peg board?

Do these make sense? Please help…any helpful hints would be great!!!

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