New Layout

This is something new for me, this blog. So don't know where to start. I am in the process of starting a new train layout. This layout is in O scale. It will have standard gauge trains and narrow gauge, being On30. This means that the track is 30 inches wide instead of the 4' 8.5" wide. This layout is in a spare bedroom the size of 12' x 10'. It is a shelf type. Two feet wide

and goes all around the room covering all three walls. The fourth wall is only one foot wide by six feet long. That is the wall that the entrance door opens to. And this section will be the wharf of the city. But the layout will be set up to run point to point. The entrance to the room won't be blocked nor it will have a removable section. The bench is made out of 1 x 4's frame and the table top is made out of MDF Board. On the top of the MDF I have laid a sheet of homasote.

The setting will be urban with industries and tall buildings. The main standard track will be on three sides including the wharf. The track will be mainly on the back of the layout while the narrow gauge will be the one going to all the industries throughout the city.

I am doing the first section which is the wharf. I have hand laid the main standard track and the narrow gauge track right on the homasote, since the wharf does not have roadbed and the track will be embedded into the planking's on the deck. . Last night April 6th I started to lay down the planking's on the deck. Now remember this deck is six feet long by one foot wide. So there is a lot of planking's to lay down.