Like many, many of you, I struggle (and generally fail) at keeping a clean organized workbench.  As I have started and worked through projects over the years, I've tried just about everything to keep my projects organized - butter tubs, old greeting card boxes, even discarded instrument packages from scientific instruments!  See, I like to keep all the detail parts, replacement couplers, etc together in a single place while I work on a model, so I can just pick it up, work on it, and then set it down without spending time trying to hunt everything out of my on bench storage

Using a section of oak to test bend the plywood that will lead out of the main Helix and into La Grange.  You can see Gila Grains from this angle.

Photo of the Helix exit.  You can see I have not fully finished the front face of the bench work yet at the end of the 1x6.  Gila Springs in on the back wall to the right. 

G`day Folks

          I have been working on a mechanical point system to go with my railway.

The lower deck is built of what I call the backbone of the layout 3 4x1 with plywood sandwiched in between them.  The Backbone is the anchor for the peninsula.  The spine sits directly above the Backbone. 

The Upper spine is a 6" x 10' long section of wood that sits on top of Oak Uprights.  Every thing is tied together with Metal - T that will have lag bolts running thought the web of the spine.