Raising the Western Hoosic Division Layout

One other interesting thing I think about the layout, you raised it eight inches. From 32 inches to now it's at 40. Why did you do that? And that had to be a huge job. You had to get lots of help and, you know, carjacks or No, actually it wasn't. It was, I think, worrying about it was more of a problem than actually doing it. The whole project took probably about five hours, believe it or not. One member of the tree group is Biaggio Pace and he's a pretty handy fellow. He comes up with all kinds of ideas about all kinds of things, not just model railroading. And I had him down here one evening and I was telling him that for about the last decade or so I've been thinking about raising a layout and I asked him how he thought I could do it. So, we got to discussing how it was built and we counted up the number of legs we have on it and being L, it's it's on L girders and it has 30 two by four legs. And his suggestion was to use threaded rods mounted alongside the two by four legs with brackets and running a nut up the threaded rods and turning the nuts against the mounts on the legs to use the rods in essence, as jacks.