Getting Started

I'd been interested in model railroads for some time and became more so after attending a few shows with my father-in-law and watching him work on his HO Great Northern layout. Sure enough, I was hooked.

With space a premium I knew I wouldn't have room for an HO scale layout so N Scale was perfect. What's more, I had seen several plans for N Scale layouts on hollow core doors (HCD). So with an HCD and a basic set of Kato Unitrack I was on my way.

There is nothing revolutionary about my HCD benchwork which is exactly the point. To get started all I needed was:

• a hollow core door available from any home improvement store. I picked up a 36" x 80" unfinished door from Lowes but any such store, and any such door, will do;
• a set of replacement banquet table legs. These can be had for under $20 and are standard replacement legs used on any such type of folding table;
• four 1" x 4" boards cut to 36", used to attach the table legs to the hollow core door

Really that is it. That is all I needed to get my basic benchwork up and ready for future use as the platform on which to build my N Scale model raiload