Building a Model Railroad Laying Foam and Transferring the Track Plan (381) @TheDCCGuy
Building a Model Railroad Laying Foam and Transferring the Track Plan (381)  @TheDCCGuy
Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This time I'll fill you in on why I use foam insulation boards atop my plywood baseboard and discuss the adhesive I use. Then I'll lay the foam. After that we'll get out the track plan and have a go at transferring it to the foam subroadbed. Although pretty straightforward it can take a few minutes to do it since you have to make some pretty accurate measurements and draw a bunch of lines, which is why this video is a bit longer than usual.

Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:46 Why use foamboard
5:00 Liquid Nails adhesive
7:06 Applying adhesive and foamboard
12:00 Reviewing the track plan
13:45 Transferring the plan
24:49 Wrapup
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Building a Model Railroad--Laying Foam and Transferring the Track Plan (381)

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