Woodland Scenics Plaster Cloth starts to cover part
  of the "Test & Development" section of the layout.


            
By August 15, 2004, we have putting plaster down for about a week and have gone this far.

            
Work progresses, and this is the same area on Sunday, September 19, 2004.
What are not in place yet are the valences that will drop down and cover the lights and the cloth that
will hang to the floor when the layout is in use, and serve as a dust cover for the layout we are running.

        
We have some fun!!!
Please don't eat the "Yellow Snow"!!!

        
Next, we are going to put down some plaster, scenery, and buildings.

Well it is now November 14, 2004 and Rick has been doing more work on this section of the layout.

Plaster, shaping and more plaster.

        

        

Followed by Paint!

        

        

John's sub-roadbed is just about back into this room, but 2 feet higher. No Photographs yet.

We get to see a mock-up of Ed' s LAUPT!

        

        
Ed has spent hundreds of hours researching LAUPT, It will be Great!

It is now the middle of February, 2005 and work has been progressing!

After painting the hillsides Rick, Joe, and Wil began to apply rock castings and some scenery.

            

            



An overview of the one area of the layout with scenery.

Pardon the mess!

Leaving the first room, we move back into the second room,
    

Two views of the of the subroad bed and some track in the second room.

Trains will enter this room at the bottom right,
    
and go back into the first room at the upper level.
The risers have not be braced yet.

In this view we see the the tracks leaving the second room, for the third.


Older views of the 2nd and 3rd rooms to help keep the continuity,
      
Our first siding is in the second and third rooms. The track continues around a big horseshoe curve and
heads back to the second room. More than half of the uprights in this room will be replaced with
proper "Benchwork" in the future.

Leaving the third room for the second and heading for the first, where we will will have another
horseshoe curve!
      

The wall between the first and seconds rooms, with trains entering from

the lower left (of center), and returning at the upper right (of center).

The other side of the wall

and on to the horse shoe curve.

Two views of the horse shoe curve, located above the helix.
  

More to come!

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