Ogden & Cache Valley, Part II

[GPdemayo]

Nice to see some progress Doug, looking good.....

[Jerry]

Doug nice update!!

After watching this come together I've come to the conclusion that "THE LUMBER YARD" loves to see you coming!! 

Jerry

[Onewolf]

Doug nice update!!

After watching this come together I've come to the conclusion that "THE LUMBER YARD" loves to see you coming!! 

Jerry

The layout has around 485 - 490 linear feet of benchwork, so YES.  Lots of lumber.

[ACL1504]

Doug,

Good to see you are still working on the layout.

Tom

[KentuckySouthern]

I'm enjoying your layout work, well done. Keeping it as clean as you have would be difficult for me.  I like the foam you're using.

One of the commercial layout builders here in MI is totally, passionately opposed to Homosote citing its no longer truly flat and humidity soaking causes more unevenness in its surface. I've never used any. 

What ever you're doing it sure is a treat for me.

KS

I concur on the difficulty with finding good quality frame wood.  It's a nearly impossible to find any good "sticks" in the bins at Menards or Lowes. You are lucky if you can find 1 out of a dozen decent 1x3. I bought most of mine in the lumber yard nearby that were near trim quality.

[Onewolf]

I used 1/2" homasote on the previous layout for the yard/loco service areas and I found that I had to spend a lot of time/effort patching it to make it level.  That's why I switched 1/2" rigid foam for the new layout.  Not that the foam doesn't have issues:  the surface is very fragile (even a finger nail can cut into surface) and you have to be very careful when working on/above the foam.  Dropping almost anything results in a depression or surface gouge.

The issue I am currently fighting is getting new LED strips to match the color temp of the old/saved LED strip fixtures.  I am loathing the possibility of redoing all the LED strip fixtures with new LEDs in order to get 'matched'.