B: Down West
Staging Shields
McCormack creek
A: Down Lower Arrow Lake Fire Cascade
BN Republic staging
Barr Creek Roseberry Kettle River Lift gate Coykendahl Slocan Lake Hills
Summit Lake
Creek
McRae Creek
Upper Arrow Lake
Porcupine Creek
Brooklyn Creek
Pup Creek Old Naksup
Farron
Denver Canyon (hidden staging)
New Naksup
Fife/Lafferty
Swing Gate 2
With careful planning, the author has packed a lot of layout into his garage (be- low). On the right in this partial view we can see a train crossing the Kootenay Riv- er on the lower level. Note the partial wye with two tracks leading off the edge of the layout. This is South Slocan/Fraine, where Swing Bridge 3 connects. The water tower on the level above is at Lafferty.
Subs. The peninsula ended up as a triple deck “double mushroom” design sandwiching the climb to Farron be- tween the Slocan and Kaslo Subs all in an eight foot square area. The peninsu- la’s design and construction, as well as the design of the various gates (four in all in the end), have been covered in the Layout Design SIG’s Layout Design Journal (Edition 38) and Kalmbach’s Model Railroad Planning 2012, so I won’t go over them again here.
The construction
In the summer of 2005 I began con- struction of the C&W. Out came the saws and in came truckloads of pre-cut plywood. Nearly the whole layout was framed from ³₄″ plywood accurately cut into nominal 1″×4″ strips by a local lumber dealer. The cutting charge per sheet made this economical versus di- mensional lumber given the stability and quality of the resulting plywood boards. The framing is open grid se- cured to the walls. In the middle of the room the open grid is screwed to T- girder rails in turn supported by I beam “legs” attached to more T-girder rails screwed into the concrete floor. In the mushroom area the upper decks are hung from the ceiling and tied with
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framing to the lower decks. All of these components were made from the trusty ³₄″ plywood strips. The result is a very rigid structure which easily supports my weight with minimal deflection. A consideration in multi-deck design
is lighting. I was worried about the thickness, the power required, and the heat load. A bit of experimentation and
calculation showed that if nine- and 13- watt CFLs were used it would re- quire nearly 80 bulbs drawing close to 1,500 watts. I wasn’t willing to scrimp on 120V wiring so proper screw-in fix- tures, mounting boxes and solid wiring were used throughout. All of the woodwork was done inside the layout room and I got all the fram-
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