[mabarker1]

Try to envision this. Go to Your local Home Depot or lowes Home Improvement Center. Go to the Lumber Department and start grabbing sheets of 3/8" thick (they are not real heavy) 4' x 8' Plywood off the Rack and start placing them on the floor in this configuration: 31 sheets long, laid side by side (4') and 3 sheets wide, laid end to end (8'). This will require 93 Sheets of Plywood. A Bundle of 3/8" is 80 sheets. So You will need 1 full bundle PLUS 1/6th of another bundle. I'm not sure but I think there will be enough space on the floor between the Lumber Racks and from the Front to the Back of the Store.

Making the assumption that the Sales Staff will let You keep doing this on their floor without stopping or having You arrested, You might want to have the Wife/Girlfriend pack a lunch for You.

PS- If You manage to pull this off Please be sure to have somebody video You doing this and Post it for Me😀.

Thanks in advance.

[Carriage Hill]

Back in the late 50s, Dad and I built a 30ft x 15ft Lionel gauge train table, with transformers, cities, towns, parks, roads, vehicles people, street lights, landscaping etc etc etc.

He was a highly-decorated WWII Army Combat Engineer w/ Patton’s 3rd Army, all thru France, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Battle of The Bulge, so he could build/blow bridges, build airstrips, buildings, bridges, do electrical, woodwork, masonry etc. He just passed at 94, last October.

I operated it from one end w/ 5 transformers. It was a massive undertaking and cost a bundle, and the Lionel trains would be almost unaffordable today.

When I left HS and went to college in Iowa in ‘67, I gave it all away to his sister’s sons, who still have it to this day, in CT. I’ve driven up there to visit and played with it.

I feel Dad is there, when it’s running and I’m operating it...