It seems that I tend to make bench work during this time of year. In the afternoons the sun is now low enough behind the redwood trees to shade the front of the garage but it is still warm outside. I pull my table saw out into the driveway and get to work. This gives me the winter to work on the track, wiring, and scenery inside the train room.
For this next section of the layout I elected to go with a more conventional type of bench work instead of building modules. The reasons for this are that it needed to span the window and with very simple wiring not much effort would be saved building it as a module.
In the panorama photo below the new section can be seen. This is about 15 linear feet of new layout around the end of the room and extends all the way to the door just off scene to the left where a lift out section will be.
I had already cut 2 inch wide strips from 1/2 inch plywood to build this bench work section. The pieces were cut to the length needed in the garage and brought into the train room to be assembled. The shorter left over pieces are being used as connecting plates.
So what happened to the test track / return loop that was in this location ? It is being recycled again, this time as sub roadbed for this new section of the layout.
And with the first couple of sub roadbed sections held temporarily in place so I can verify that I am leaving enough straight track on both ends of the new brass bridge for longest rolling stock to get through OK.
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