Eastfield TMD

Layout build history
Latest update: August 2008.





Some of the baseboard has been painted to aid my minds eye. I've started on the right hand side of the layout by building up the bridge to which I'll add supporting walls, scenery and nest to it two low relief industrial buildings.


With the track down, a rough idea of layout is fleshed out with approximate placement of buildings.


Nearly all the track is down.


Drilled and fitted Peco inspection pits for the depot shed.


I then relayed the work using Gaugemaster foam ballast.


I began to lay the pointwork.


I bought a roll of cork from a firm I discovered on the internet, glued the cork down and trimmed off the excess. Originally I had constructed some wooden legs to attach to the baseboard but realised that these weren't going to achieve what I wanted in terms of strength, so I bought some extendable metal-legged work horses/trestles.


• Strengthening cross braces placed at spacings designed to avoid planned point motor placement.




• My initial start for a Eastfield flavoured layout ended in 2007 after I realised I have planned too large and spent far too much time on ballasting that didn't meet my expectations. So I replanned and reduced the size of the layout to a more managable size. A decision was made to use Code 75 track with electrofrog points throughout with Gaugemaster foam ballast inserts for ease of ballasting. Construction started January 2008.