Friday Night Work Session at Wade's Layout

This past Friday night was a special night as we were at Wade's home to work on his layout.
In attendance were:

Coalfinger Ken
Glue Bob
Band Camp Mark
Steve-bay
Packrat Paul
Concrete Keith
Popsicle Rick

Wade's work goals for the night included: running buss wires, putting down cork roadbed, and installing track.

Keith & Mark are installing turnouts and track while Wade is deciding on track location.


Ken, Paul & Wade are discussing all of the fine points of layout design.

Bob was a little out of his element (glue) as both the cork and track are being installed using track nails - no glue! Here he's figuring the radius on the curves, which had to be reduced from the desired 30" to 29" to fit the layout.

Steve couldn't figure out why he was having trouble drilling holes for the buss wiring until we told he that the sharp drill bit thingy was to go against the wood! ;-) Both Steve and Rick made short work of drilling two seperate holes ( one for buss, one for control) through each of the 2" x 4" boards and then stringing the buss wire.

And now let us pray............. acutally, Mark is thinking about the cork in a turnout area.

The Wade Brothers are confiring with Ken on some serious matter of some kind.

Paul took a turn with the rest of us in the VERY comfortable Crew Lounge enjoying refreshments and watching some interesting railroad videos. Comfortable settings, cookies, drinks & trains - now that's living!

It was wonderful being at Wades and seeing his layout & room. He's making great progress and perhaps will be the location for a near future operating session!