Kingzance

I saw the demise of steam on the Isle of Wight, then the former GWR and the final days of the Slow and Dirty Joint Railway. Those memories clearly influenced my interest in the historical aspect of Railway Modelling. Now retired, I have converted part of my integral garage into a layout area of approximately 3.3m x 2.8m. The layout is set in the southwest around 1930 so that I can use my favoured locos, carriage stock and goods wagons. Such a period does mean I generally do not have to worry about tarmac roads, a wide range of road vehicles or anything other than semaphore signalling.
I have built all the baseboards from 12mm ply with 9mm decking. I have laid most of the track - which is Peco Code 75 wooden sleeper - on closed cell neoprene and used matching Peco Electrofrog turnouts throughout. Ballast is a 50/50 mixture of OO and N scale crushed granite products. 
Every length of rail has its own electrical feed soldered to it and all feeds are collected into groups that are soldered into bus sections. There are effectively 3 power districts, each protected by PSX units. Each turnout is switched using Tortoise motors and the inbuilt c/o switch alters frog polarity. The 26 Tortoise units are all connected to NCE Switch-8 accessory decoders. Control is by NCE Power-Cab and I have installed some TCS and some Zimo decoders. I have not gone down the route of sound, I can't justify the cost when the layout is still in the building phase.