Westside Lumber Sn3 Layout
In August of 2012, we visited John Constans' Westside Lumber Sn3 Layout on a layout tour. Little did we know that six years later, his widow would donate it to our club in his memory. We have transported it to the side room of our clubhouse, reinforced it, and created a new mount for it. We are now in the process of refurbishing it for public display. Stay tuned to follow our progress.
Click here to see what it looked like back in 2012.
The buildings and other loose things had been removed and packed up when we arrived to dismount it and move it to our clubhouse.
We carefully removed it from the garage wall, reinforced it a little, and loaded it into a rented truck for the trip to the clubhouse.
It took three dollies to transport it into our clubhouse in Grossmont Center.
Getting it from the garage wall to our clubhouse was challenging, but the biggest hurdle turned out to be maneuvering it into the side room of the clubhouse. We rolled it under our big modular layout, raised the legs of the corner module, and propped it up while we swung the Sn3 layout around and into the room. We barely made it.
But we did get it in, and temporarily up on two tables until we could build a proper frame and base for it.
Now, that's a proper frame!
And the frame has a two-foot extension so we can recreate the left end of the layout that was cut off when the water heater had to be replaced in the garage.
And the base. Now it's solid. Real solid.
Then we created a rack for the sound system accessories and got them working.
And Raulf went to work getting the engines repaired and working:
The beginnings of the rebuilt left end with its pond ...
Fitting the buildings into place.
Texturing the ground and the pond basin.
The next steps were to install the retaining wall at the side of the pond and paint the bottom of the pond, getting it ready to pour the water.
In the meantime, artist-in-residence Ken started refurbishing the damaged backdrop and creating a replacement for its missing left end.
And the backdrop behind the lumber mill at the left end of the layout.
We created a proper wall mount for the backdrop.
And mounted it. In the process, Ken painted the wall the same sky blue as the backdrop.
And mounted it. In the process, Ken painted the wall the same sky blue as the backdrop.
As soon as work is finished on the upper track, we can move the layout back against the wall and install the transitional landscaping.