First Steps

 Well finally things are on the move. The first part of the layout has been transferred from the house to the shed to take up its new home. Designed initially as a modular layout, it was easy enough to dismantle and then carried down to the shed.

The layout has inherited the space previously occupied by South Coast Rail, which some of you may have followed over the years. SCR was both a HO and then a Victorian Narrow gauge layout. Both layouts now dismantled and now allowing the space to be occupied by East Coast Rail.

The walls have been freshened up with a new coat of paint when luckily a 3/4 tin was found under the layout. There was a pickle jar saved of leftover paint which will now hopefully be enough to cover the areas that are a bit bare of paint. The floor has been covered with second hand floor tiles that make the floor look more respectable. Many years ago it was just the bare concrete so this is  a vast improvement. The dark grey is a good colour for hiding the dirt.

There are still many 'objects' in the room that need to go somewhere. Hand me down drawers are now filled with such things as scenery items, and other bits and pieces that we all seem to collect over the years. My hope is to eventually get rid of most of the things and then get rid of the drawers. But for the moment we will work around them.

The initial layout was purpose designed to fit in a bedroom and had the usual passenger station, loco depot, turntable and freight yard, enough to make it interesting, but by the decision to move to a larger area, the design will have to modified to make use of the larger space, and why not?

Section 1 arrives

There were three baseboard sections that will join and go down the side of the shed towards the roller door. The second section that contains the turntable has now been joined onto the first section out from the wall to allow easy access to the back so the additional timber and track can be laid. Also additional timber needs to be sourced for more legs. In its previous position the corner section was held up with short legs that rested on top of the desk.

Baseboards 1 & 2 assembled.

The above photo highlights the narrowness of the platform, this was the maximum width I could fit in within the space. It is intended to provide a larger style platform elsewhere on the layout. So for now it will have to do.

More updates later.