Staging area

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
1

Here I am again with anither question.

My son and I are gang to hae a staging area behind a wall and we were wonering if we should or should not lay foam doon as we will with the rest o’ the layoot?

Please excuse the type’en - the Scot is coom’en oot again and I need to get this done afore my client for a photo shoot shows up.

Thank ye.

Yours aye,

Macdonald, RB (Mac)

2

To me it’s a question of noise. In my last layout one section was laid on plywood and the rest was laid on foam. The difference was deafening, so to speak. I’d put down the foam.

3

I’ll second Chip’s motion. The foam makes a world of difference.

4

Especially in staging, silence is golden. Foam it.

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in 1964 - with foam under the hidden staging trackage)

5

Thank ye guys. We both thought the same thing, but in e’ery photo we have seen it indicated tha’ there wasn’t any foam.

Again thank ye and sorry to be such a pest.

Yours aye,

Macdonald,RB (Mac)

6

I don’t use any roadbead material in my staging yards. My trains are run relatively slow in those yards so noise has never been an issue.

Mike in Tulsa

BNSF Cherokee Sub

7

I didn’t use roadbed either, but the track is on foam.

May staging is in another room and the section between the pike and staging (about two feet going through the wall) is plywood. You can hear the train a coming…

Personally, I like using foam and would suggest it everywhere.