Getting Real Column - 6
9. The 2” Styrofoam subroadbed was replaced with
new birch plywood subroadbed. This is how the
scene looked the day after the decision was made to
alter the scene.
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As I related in my last column, the scene is now secure in its
new location on the railroad.
While they were working on the bridge scene, Ben Hom and
I went to work on the track in the paper mill. Within an hour
we had removed all the track. At first I planned to reuse the 2”
Styrofoam sub-roadbed. However, this area was at the point
where the “new” peninsula joined the original lower deck
around-the-wall benchwork which is a 1x4 grid with plywood
sub-roadbed. Despite my best efforts, the foam was never per-
fectly level or flush in this area, and it seemed to change over
time (likely a result of the wood shrinking and swelling with
the seasonal temperature shift}. Since I was going to have to
extend some of the sub-roadbed in a couple of spots, it made
MRH-Dec 2014
