N scale demolition

The Covid-induced staying at home creates a lot of stress as well as opportunity to work on trains. In my case, I wanted to stay upstairs as much as possible to "help around the house," but I also noticed the N scale layout in our living room that has been begging to be worked on for decades. Having been inspired by (1) Mark Dance's amazing N scale pulp and paper mill, and (2) the Nucor steel mill in West Seattle that we toured last summer, I decided to create additional developable land on the N scale layout. This meant demolishing some ancient plaster-on-cardboard strips scenery and installing new pieces of (hopefully level) plywood sub-roadbed. What follows are some photos of the demolition.

This is a partial shot of demolition of the southwest corner of the layout, south of the main Seattle yard, in preparation for adding a shelf to house, among other things, some tracks to represent the Nucor steel mill in West Seattle.

And here's the shelf in place temporarily before final roadbed and track in that area.

Here are two shots of a huge hole in the old scenery, created with a loud and dusty application of a Dremel reciprocating tool, kind of like a miniature "Sawzall". You can see the resulting debris on the tracks below.

Before long there should be sufficient real estate available to build a convincing pulp and paper mill. Looking forward to it! Where would we be without saber saws and plywood?