Florida Layout Update

Greetings followers of the Atlantic Pacific Railroad. 

It's been close to a year since I made a post about the layout build in the snowbird house in Florida. My last post was back in January 2018, so I figured it's about time to do another update. 

A little background on the room. It's 11'10" x 13'3" with a double door offset to the right in the room. After a lot of thought and getting some feedback from friends, I decided to build a 2 level layout with a helix, very similar to the one on the New Jersey layout. This layout will be a point to point with a freight yard, a couple passenger stations in each corner and a number of industries. Here was the last post on the progress. January 17 2018

Framework was installed on the lower level in January as well.

Fast forward to July 2018 and the helix is now in place with track. 

The tops for the lower level were added as well. Once attached I started to lay out some track for a yard of sorts. 

Now it's the end of December and I started to work on the upper level frames. I've done so many of these over the years, once I get the wood and get the sections cut, they get built fairly quick. Takes more time to drill the holes in the cross sections for wires then to make all of the cuts to assemble it.

The layout is level all around. The brackets work well.

Here's a little bit more of a view of the train room and the work to this point. 

Thanks for reading. Stay tuned for more updates!