CONSTRUCTION BEGINS
Don’s original sketch
Don and his dad attaching legs to the doors
Don attaching the first leg unit
Placing track to develop the best use of the tables
Don wiring the layout
The display shelves are made of light weight doorskin ply and strip wood
The final track plan
Ballast party...no fun at all
Don building mountains with Dave helping
Building up the mountains with foam and wood
Don’s mountains (still more to go) Note the upper loop to be used by mining locos (critters, he calls them)
Mostly finished mountains
Test run......it all worked!
More testing.....well, maybe just a little train play....
The six tables with legs......notice the extensions on the legs to raise the tables
Construction began in March 2005 in Bob’s back driveway. Due to the distance between their homes, work days were spread over a number of weekends. The layout was finished (are they EVER finished?) in time for the first setup at the Big Train Show on the Queen Mary in June 2005.
