A new something, well actually an re-newed something.
Years ago I discovered Carl Arendt’s microlayout website and caught the micro bug. I built a micro based on a layout called “Carls Imports” that Carl did in HO. I did mine of course in G because I’m nuts and called it the “Borracho Brewey”, the plan even ended up in Carl’s thrid book. But as many here know my hobby experience has been one of as many tear downs as build ups, this being no exception, and the first incarnation of Carls Imports got dismantled. It didnt help that I was building it in a very complicated that made it heavy and hard to handle. So it got dismantled and I switched to Pizza Layouts, which are about as simple as you can get.
Pizzas are very addictive, mine has been a great deal of fun over the years and I have built 2 others in G and HOn30, and plans for a smaller N version, but thats another story.
Recently as I was working on the indoor layout, self-editing aspects that look good on paper but didnt work in reality. One of these edits was to modify a two switch spur into a one spur siding at the far rear of the layout. After reworking the spur I had a turnout and some spare track, I wondered if I could redo the Carls Imports layout, after a quick trip to and about three evenings work I’m roughly back to were I was when I dismantled the Borracho Brewery. This one is far simpler than the first incarnation. The base is 1/8 Handi-board Plywood, the frame 1x2’s where the first was 5/8" plywood with a 2x2 frame. Here I simply cut the ply in two, used one piece for the base, the other for the backdrop.