Being pretty much ready to start thinking about laying some track, I started pondering about the best way of doing it.
A few notes/questions:
- Glueing the track directly to the wooden benchwork is probably a bad idea given the noise it'll produce.
- A thin sheet of styrofoam, the blue/pink variety should sit nicely between the track and the benchwork to dampen the noise. Is it recommendable to just glue the styrofoam onto the wood and to glue the track onto the foam or are nails or screws the only way to go (and will this work when using a layer of foam between track and benchwork)? I don't really need roadbeds for the track to sit on as the layout is entirely underground.
- Now on to the problematic part: the layout will eventually have two levels with a height difference of about 2-3". While the lower level can be laid as a regular layout, the upper level might cause problems, as on one hand I want it to be strong enough, so an all-foam construction would probably be unlikely, but when opting for some woodwork to support it, the benefits of laying the track onto foam might at least partially be negated.
- I guess my main question is what one can and cannot do with pink/blue insulation board: can it serve as the main building material for a layout?
Thanks,
Norm
A few notes/questions:
- Glueing the track directly to the wooden benchwork is probably a bad idea given the noise it'll produce.
- A thin sheet of styrofoam, the blue/pink variety should sit nicely between the track and the benchwork to dampen the noise. Is it recommendable to just glue the styrofoam onto the wood and to glue the track onto the foam or are nails or screws the only way to go (and will this work when using a layer of foam between track and benchwork)? I don't really need roadbeds for the track to sit on as the layout is entirely underground.
- Now on to the problematic part: the layout will eventually have two levels with a height difference of about 2-3". While the lower level can be laid as a regular layout, the upper level might cause problems, as on one hand I want it to be strong enough, so an all-foam construction would probably be unlikely, but when opting for some woodwork to support it, the benefits of laying the track onto foam might at least partially be negated.
- I guess my main question is what one can and cannot do with pink/blue insulation board: can it serve as the main building material for a layout?
Thanks,
Norm