Once a location was determined and accepted, a review of the old layout was done. The club determined that the space we had available would not allow us to resurrect the old layout in any shape or form. A decision was made to restart the layout from scratch, but to plan into the layout methods that can be used to dismantle the pieces more easily than our last design. Several of the more scenic pieces of the old layout were salvaged and stored on-site to be used at a later date for photography or other display options.

Construction has continued since September 2006. All mail line track work and much of the other track work areas has been laid out in its proposed position, except for the steel mill complex. Members of the club are feverishly working on finishing the main line track equipment installation, i.e. tortoise motors, switches, bus wiring, control wiring, etc. Once all this equipment is in, main line track can be used for running trains.

On April 12 and 13, 2008, the club will host its first open house at 25th Avenue. We hope to have both main line tracks running completely from helix to helix on the top and bottom portions of the layout. The work continues feverishly to try to accomplish this task. Trains will be running on the layout, even if they can't go everywhere on the main line. After several years, members will be happy to be able to run trains again!

After the open house, work will continue on the track work to get all areas of the track functional. Once a sufficient amount of the track is operational, scenery work will begin and run at the same time as the track is being finished. By the next open house, we will have the entire main line operational and hope to have much of the auxillary tracks operational as well.

Stay tuned for more history updates!