My benchwork is built. I have plywood at the ready and am going with a cookie cutter method for roadbed. Tonight I ordered my flextrack and turnouts along with roadbed, I thought I’d try the woodland scenics track-bed. I’ve used cork in the past but was building on foam. Hoping the track-bed quiets the plywood some. I also ordered a through truss and through girder bridge set with piers and abutments. Figured I might want these in hand when laying the track. Am I missing anything?
Of course your missing something, you just don’t know what it is yet.[(-D]That happens to all of us.
Take your time and enjoy the journey. Post photo’s of your progress, we love photo’s
Hope springs eternal… Fortunately, LIONS like noisy roadbeds, afterall, that is what subway trains sound like. Him thinks to amplify it.
How solid your subroad bed is will play a bigger part in quieting a railroad. If your cookie cuts a wide span it will act like a guitar rubber roadbed or no.
ROAR
Buildings? Trees? Rolling stock kits? These can be started while you wait for other stuff to come or give you a break along the way. They can be worked on while other things dry (or set). Also, you don’ have to be in the layout room to work on them. A small space on a table, with a bit of newspaper makes a work area.
Good luck,
Richard