of water flooded the layout room. Some of the road surfaces originated as flat pieces of foam from carry-out boxes sanded smooth and then dis- tressed with a wire brush and hobby knives for the seams and cracks. Wherever kits are used, they have been heavily detailed. For instance, the numerous crossing shanties are all modified Tichy Train outhouses. Layout lighting is continually evolv-
Supporting the tracks are risers and a spline sub-roadbed made from two vertical strips of luan plywood separated by small pine blocks. The risers have center finger fit with a small piece of PVC pipe. The sub-roadbed sits on the shoulders of the riser and the PVC pipe fits in the gap. This construction provides flexibility in laying out curves.
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ing. The current lights are clusters of white, blue, and red bulbs to represent different times of day and night. A complete set of fluorescent lights stand by overhead, ready to illuminate main- tenance and cleaning when the layout isn’t on display to visitors. As might be expected, most of the buildings have interior lighting as well, and streetlights illuminate the towns. Most of the lights are LED’s. A harbor scene shows a working lighthouse, a correctly lit small boat, exterior build- ing lights and a fire in a steel drum. While only about half the layout at
present has finished scenery, the rest of the layout shows Dave’s unique benchwork. He’s used quarter inch luan plywood wherever possible, in- cluding girders, risers, joists, splines and sub-roadbed. The fascia is hard- board. The spline roadbed is made up of two side strips of luan separated at intervals with small blocks of pine. The short (one inch) sections of PVC pipe fit onto fingers on the luan risers to sepa- rate the splines with shoulders to sup- port them. The result is a bendable spline that creates broad curves with automatic easements. Dave is making continual progress on the layout, but is currently sharing his modeling time repairing and scratchbuilding ship models for display in the new National Museum of the Great Lakes scheduled to open in Tole- do [Ohio] this spring [2014]. Neverthe- less, the Ontario Southern will be available for viewing by convention at- tendees during the 2014 NMRA Na- tional Convention in Cleveland.
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