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Tools and lumber ready to be put to use
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Here's the jig to mass produce benchwork modules
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Duane Darling and David Tumulty rip plywood into 1"x3"
dimensional strips as Marty Barkley looks on
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At long last. Steven Foster stands next to the first benchwork
module to be installed.
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David and Duane screw 2 more modules together
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With all those modules pre-made and ready, the assembly goes
quick.
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The room is getting built out
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Another shot of the benchwork
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Benchwork taking shape. The modular layout was moved into the
meeting room and out of the way.
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Duane at the table saw, Marty and David assembling a module in
the jug.
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Pocket screw hold it all together. They can be easily
removed, allowing rearrangement of the
cross joists if necessary, to clear Tortoise machines of
whatever
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Benchwork along the south wall
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Barry Cottrell, Mike Kremheller and Scott Kurzawski start
running wires under the layout
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Benchwork for the Larkspur staging yard
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The rough benchwork is pretty much complete
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This shot of our two nested helixes show how the plywood
sub-roadbed is constructed.
These helixes change in diameter and cross over each other,
making their construction more difficult.
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The "glues" brothers, Mike Kremheller and John Christiansen,
laying Homasote
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The helixes are ready for track
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Looking out across the emerging layout from the entrance door
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A shot taken from another corner
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Couldn't wait for all the track to get down to put out a string
of cars.
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At long last, the inaugural train makes a test run, snaking its
way down temporary
track laid on one of the 2 stacked staging yards over the
workbench
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The test train passing through the wall separating the layout
room from the workroom
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Running down the track across the benchwork for the Larkspur
staging yard ...
.. and running out of track. Have to quit playing and lay more
track!
![](images/Initial%20Layout%20Construction/Coal%20train%20comes%20to%20the%20end%20of%20the%20line%20for%20now.jpg)
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Charlie Richmond ponders the location of the diesel service
facility
as Jim Dunnuck & Ray McClure look on
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Mock up of what will become the Paper Mill in Paulsboro
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Hidden staging in Shashone Yard
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One of the two grades down to the 2 hidden staging yards
With the below layout balloon track, whole trains can be turned
around
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Miguel Macias helps steady the valence over what will ultimately
become our Dispatcher's Desk
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