No, they are not dado rails but the first bits of wood affixed to the walls for the start of baseboard construction. As can readily be seen, one of the problems I have is the water heater for the new bathroom (next door to the left). Slap bang where my new layout needs to be. More on this later.
Research was still being done along with purchasing rail and stock. I had decided to go with OO gauge and DCC. Track was going to be Peco 100 streamline and I ordered numerous amounts of second hand
Having never created a Blog before, I started to formulate what I wanted on a Word document. There will follow numerous entries until I manage to catch up with my self and start to post 'live' updates. Bear with me in case the images turn up in the wrong places!!
It was now May 2016 and we were having the downstairs large storeroom renovated. We live upstairs on what is the ground floor but wanted a new bathroom fitted for the guest rooms downstairs. This opened up the scope for a model rail
By way of an introduction,_ I have always had a passion for all things related to transport. For years I had a fixation with aircraft and in the 1970's joined the Air training Corps. I was able to have flights in aircraft and that really encouraged me to embark on all things relating to that genre. Time marched on and before too long, marriage and family life took over so the aircraft side of my interests took a bit of a back seat.
I also had a passion for railways. I recall the days in the
