Hi
I was inspired by Mudmagnet's Orchard Road layout as I was helping him out at Exeter M.R.Show in June 4th/5th 2011.
I am thinking of making a shunting layout of two boards at 4ftx2ft (8ftx2ft) with plywood on a frame of 2inx1in and the legs will fold up underneath and will be put together as one module to go into a family car. The underlay will be laminate floor foam underlay 3mm thick, and I will be useing C+L point work and track on wooden sleepers, which I was inspired by Darren1 with imperil potteries. The control will be DCC by NCE Power Cab,I already have on my layout in the loft.
The idea I have with this layout is a freight train come's on scene and a diesel shunter will take the train off of the locomotive which will go of scene light engine, so the shunting begins, shunting the loaded wagons and making a train of emptys, a freight train comes in again and the shunter takes the train of the loco and the loco goes onto the emptys and takes them away,then more shunting.