Once we finished the dry-fitting exercise which proved our track plan was feasible in real life, we began installing the track and roadbed. 

As you may remember, we're using sectional track, switches and roadbed from Ross Custom Switches, an American-made product.  We're also using insulating pins and uncoupling tracks from Gargraves Trackage, two more American-made products.  On July 8, 2007, we finished fitting the track and roadbed into place.

The next step for us was screwing it down to the layout table.  To prevent the "kettle drum" noise affect of train vibrations being transmitted through the track and screws to the underlying plywood, the track and roadbed is attached to the underlying Homasote material which, in turn, was previously glued down to the plywood using a construction adhesive.

Click here to see pictures from our layout's first train run!