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Dear diary,
Dad and I are making great progress on my new OO-scale layout.
It is for my Thomas and his friends. I wanted a layout I could move about easily
and use without too much setting up,
so we measured doors and stuff and figured that it has to be less than
23 inches by 80 inches. This meant really tight turns, so that only 0-4-0 and
modified 0-6-0 locos will be able to go round it, but that's OK for Thomas and Percy and company.
It can be an extension of the larger HO layout one day, so the Flying Scotsman
can visit the upper station.
The design uses one of every type of switch including a double-slip. I am just getting
used to operating it. It is DCC, so we have had to convert the Sodor locos, too.
Being only 8.57 years old I need a bit of help doing the construction. Dad says that now we are
up to the hills and countryside I can do the papier-mache stuff. It's a bit daunting!