Ready for track work

Spent some time in the train room today. I removed the track, turnouts, and roadbed from the 2x 8 section that will be primarily the staging yard. It's smoother than it looks, and is ready for roadbed and track. I still have to develop the track plan for this section.

Next, I drew the the 1-foot square grid work, which coincides with the track plan I am following. As a reminder, I am following the "Tar Branch", the 2018 project railroad in Model Railroader .

Two members of our Thursday night round robin group have given up their nights so that the gang can come and help do the wiring under the benchwork. This means I have to have the roadbed and track down before the last Thursday of the month. But before that, I need to select the twenty best pieces of three-foot flex track from my stash of new and used track; I also need to inventory the available turnouts. All that needs to be weathered with Micro-Engineering track weathering solution. Plenty to do over the next three weeks; it's doable, but I'll have stay at it. Hopefully, trains running within a month.