RobL's Layout

[Trucklover]

Trucklover: Thanks for the comments on the benchwork... I had some old 2x4's laying around so I used them as the legs and the rest of the benchwork is 1x3's... I made sure it would support anything I put on it by putting through the ultimate torture test... I sat on it! If it can support my 200 lb frame, I am quite sure it will handle whatever scenery I throw at it. The track plan was the result of about 5 months of playing around with Empire Express on my Mac, and then some ad-lib changes as I started building. This was the first time I have ever used flextrack and I am quite happy with the results so far... much to my surprise the thing runs smoother than anything else I have ever built... even some of my suspect rolling stock manages to stay on track.

Thats a very well built and sold workbench you have built, which is always a plus, unless you ever want to move it Most of the time i use 2x4's and rip them in half so they are a little less then 2x2's after they have been planned and squared off. Works good for me, and i usually finish it all off with a 1/2" sheet of plywood and then followed by a layer or 2 of foam. This is how i did my old layouts. My Shelf layout, i just hung up a bunch of 15" heavy duty shelf brackets with some ply on top secured with carriage bolts. Anyways, enough of my rambling lol

Empire Express, now that is a GREAT program, i got it a couple months ago and i designed my whole M&ET module trackplan in it. There isnt one thing i dont like about that program and the cost was just right for me too How do you like it?