Aberfoyle Junction - 5
going out to where the railway benchwork would eventually
be. With this done, we had a contractor pour a concrete floor
on October 5, 1982. We then studded and drywalled the south
end of the building. Six-foot-high knee walls were built north-
ward along both sides.
Where a knee wall met the arch roof, we found a way to run
framing boards horizontally up the curved surface to the 11’
mark. This area was then drywalled. Finally a suspended ceil-
ing was installed across the room. By the time the layout was
brought over, this work had been completed in the south half
the structure, allowing it to act as storage for the pieces while
we worked our way northward.
We had decided we would have a lounge area across the north
end. The footprint of the building was 100’ by 40’. By allowing for
a 17’-deep lounge, the train room became 83’ by 40’. Above the
lounge area. we constructed a storage attic and a small balcony
overlooking the train room. Each end of the Quonset hut had slid-
ing barn doors. We sealed these shut at the south end, creating a
blank wall. At the north end, a studded wall housed windows and
the entrance doors. The sliding barn doors on the north end were
closed when we weren’t there, providing security.
By early 1983, construction was well along at the north end.
This allowed us to reassemble the original layout at that end,
and it became the beginning of the new layout. Plans for the
new layout were being devised throughout this same period.
As the new sections were built we used L-girder benchwork
“Our first set of weekend
shows, October of 1984.”
MRH-Dec 2014
