
New Indoor Layout - New Reckless Experimentation
I have been a little reluctant to post this, mostly as I’m still just experimenting with this more than anything, but I have been working on a small switching layout, using a portion of the old benchwork left over from the old G layout: It’s based on an N gauge microlayout I came across a few years ago. I have been feeling alot of regret after dismantling the old large fixed layout, but I still know it was the right thing to do, it was just too large and ate up too much of the garage, but I found less satisfaction with just a simple pizza micro-layout than I was hoping for, I was looking thru some old files and found this upscaled N to G layout I had done for a friend who was retiring and looking for a small bedroom layout. He didn’t use it as he found room outside for a small layout, but I became intrigued if it would fit in the garage, laid it out and it fit very nicely indeed into the back corner. I extended the spurs a little but it worked out well. I already had all the lumber, plywood and hardware laying around so a little bit of carpentry and the extended benchwork was built in a couple evenings. The track also was what I already had in storage, so far aside from some electrical wiring stuff and some connectors I haven’t