A new fiddle yard for Rhiw

Further to the last missive; a little work today, dancing between other things, on a quick baseboard build for the new short FY for the home running of Rhiw. A ferret around in the huge pile of old baseboards and MDF off-cuts in the garage turned up enough for a 12″ x 38.75″ board. It didn’t need to be up to exhibition robustness so, at least for the time being, I did without pins and corner blocks, relying on glued joints only. 

Determined not to cut any new sheet, I could only generate one full length side piece, so a bodge with a short infill piece and a brace. As is standard, the height of these is 3″ to match the layout.

In place with bolt holes drilled and some track dumped on it. The clearance is tight at the back, as it is with the exhibition FY, just need a bit more code 100 to finish it off. The next stage maybe to face it with some hardboard front and back with a small lip to keep things off the floor.

The rear two roads will cope with a two car DMU, the front of the three will hold a loco and two coaches… just. There will also be a plain road at the very front for the second ‘off’. This is quite the departure as aside from building other people’s layouts, I’ve not had one of my own in a running state for quite a while. Dury’s Gap has a short temporary fiddle stick, but never ran at home with the exhibition yard. This a new world.

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