Well, it's been a couple of months since I have done any updates to this topic. My wife and I took a 20 day western road trip, so there hasn't been as much progress to report as there would normally have been. We did see a lot of cool train related things though.
About a year ago I was building a rack to hold all the sheet goods for the layout. There were two problems with it. First, while I was trying to get it into the proper position, I kicked it, and ended up breaking my toe. Second, and I'm still not sure how this happened, I built it 8' tall, but the sheets didn't fit without binding.
Menards delivered a 2' high bale of materials on Wednesday. Patrick came over today, so the first order of business was to correct the design flaw to the rack, and get everything put away. That project took about half the afternoon, but boy was it worth it.
The delivery guy's donkey is too tall to fit in the garage, but we've done this a few times, and he can drop the bale just inside the door by extending the forks and giving it a little extra push.
The repaired and filled rack.
Ready for a long winter of construction.
Patrick picks up where he left off, securing more decking on the second peninsula.
By the end of next week, I hope to have some backdrop on the upper deck, and close off this half of the room, once and for all.
It was necessary to do some impromptu engineering, with the addition of some 2x4's to help counter balance the weight of the plywood.
We'll be trimming that corner off into a nice smooth curve.
Next Wednesday and Friday with Patrick and maybe Sunday with Matt. Making up for lost time.
