N Scale 10 x 10 space with computer/workbench space but carpet on floor

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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The bedroom has carpet on the floor, planned is a Southern Calif. SP & ATSF line to Pasadena, SP via 2 routes, via LA fairgrounds near mountains, and one throgh Pomona downtown to Colton, UP to riverside along Mission Blvd (truck route) Ontario to Riverside through Vinyards. Left Wall, 2.5 ft x 7 ft, Center wall, 3 x 10 ft, 3rd wall, 1.5 ft x (10 minus (3 ft, minus) =7 ft, minus 2.5 ft for desk/bench, with loop back, and lift out track to loopback section 4th side. Walkway in is 30 inches without liftout. My current plan has a RTS XP version trackplan, orange groves, San Gabriel town section, Pasadena section for tall buildings, industrial area, East LA, part of LA River in corner, and run to Long Beach harbor and Oil Refining & tank(s). Representations in a bit more than 3/4 mile scale. Decorated plan on my Picasa site. I do not want to attach anything to the wall, layout, needs leveling, maybe frame to rest on carpet (rails) height about eye level 30-36 inches, backdrops attached to be above for San mountains between Mt Wilson & Mt Baldy. Foam on plywood, for mild slope foothills to sea, hills (Lincoln Heights North of I-10/San Bernadino Fwy to Arroyo Seco parkway, Pasadena Fwy, and La Puente, to/at Mt SAC to Pomona) .

I grew up in Highland Park, Los Angeles, San Gabrial Valley, Puente, Covina, and lived in Ontario in '69, Arcadia (ATSF line) & UP& Colton. Orange Trees are enough, Cattle Feedlot at Valley Blvd/Puente Ave,so there will not be many tract homes if any on layout, LA City hall on a backdrop, Mt Wilson (TV antennas). San Gabriel at Atlantic has old buildings as we see here in IL in Spring Valley, Peru, LaSalle, as does Long Beach on Atlantic Ave & Harbor. I know the rail lines in/out, and East LA.

Aim is to make left, mid, right benchwork and scenic middle first, add industries to LA section to harbor later. And Ontario 1/4 mile thru vineyards and trees along RR track and truck rout toward Rive

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Re: carpet and leveling issues

If it is cut-pile carpet, use furniture leg cups with “teeth” on the underside that raise the cup to the top of the pile. If low loop-pile, use cups that simply have a padded bottom. Install tee-nuts with screw-in levelers (plastic bottom pads) into the bottoms of your benchwork legs.

DAnte

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Is there a question in there anywhere?

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Sounds fair, have to guess carpet is low loop, but padding makes it hard to walk in the this house with shoes on. Need to look into the levelers, had to buy an electric drill to hang curtain rods, with inserts, and my Railroad Station Regulator clock, from Schrader’s in MI, loved it for 3 years before buying it Love to hear it chime at the hour and the half. Railroad signs & cars, PCC LARR 1/50th trolley in finished dry basement. There is a beautiful N Scale Moble Oil gas station with red Pagasus flying horse model, the same folks that do the Sunset Motel that will fit along the old truck route. Never did that type of kit before, anything helpful along that line with assy here?

I built mostly plastic airplanes & a Tank, a few cars before at 10-14 yrs. Looks like an airbrush sprayer is in order, my brush painted “print shop” just was not able to get the rock faces right, the bricks are painted over like stucco, plastic color was wrong. Concor kit but still in Wather’s listing. Thanks much, Tom

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is it even english? Why can’t you attach to walls? For that matter sounds like a typical open-grid bench work will work fine.

Blair Line makes the Sunset Motel, but no Mobile gas station. They do make Clark and Hudson stations though.

There is this Micro Structures in Gulf, but I do seem to remember seeing this structure with a Pegasus light sign for Mobile.

Wow does this bring back memories. There was a small Mobile gas station in the tiny town (lets say 1000 pop.) that had a Pegasus/Mobile sign on the side until 2000 or so when it was bought out (by BP IIRC). Always thought it was neat.

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Am looking at a Moble Station in N Scale, Wlathers, # 361-430 Storm Lake Moble, Inovative Design, nearly missed it when I looked thru the entire Walthers list. cool looking. Regards, Puma