From the Kingfield 2-Foot Cyclopedia, I photo copied the floor plans of the most significant Kingfield structures glued them to foam core board.  Each structure was then cut from the board, so that it could be used to plan out the Kingfield yard.  The structures are engine house (top left), wood shed (bottom left), covered station (right), paint shop (showing tracks entering), turntable (below paint shop), and Winter Store buildings (between engine house and paint shop).  The main building of the Winter Store is not show, only the out buildings at rear of structure.

After getting all the benchwork up, it was time to plan out the backdrop supports.  Before the backdrops could be finalized, I had to plan out the Kingfield yard locate the trackage between Phillips and Madrid.  I made structure templates to help in the planning of Kingfield.  After much planning I compressed the main yard to 5' in length (8-9' would be better).  Compress may be the wrong term.  I actually opted to chop off the end of the yard which ends at a store.  The store will be compress on the backdrop.  The Kingfield yard will be a removable yard which I can take to shows and use on my next layout.  

This view shows the layout of a full 8' version of Kingfield yard.  The Winter store is at the far end.  The far car is actually in the store, supposedly there was a grain unloading track on part of the building.  My final 5 foot version will compress the store on the backdrop, which will not allow operators to spot cars inside the store.

Another view of the 8' layout of Kingfield.  I took these photos, for future reference.  On the next version of the layout, I'd hope to have space for the last 3 feet of track.

The actual work session was not so successful.  It turned into a backdrop construction planning session.  The peninsula winds around and is double sided.  The layout on each side is often narrow 8-24", so thin backdrop would be nice 1-2" thick.  Besides wanting the backdrop thin, I want to minimize impact on the finish basement ceiling and I want the backdrop to be continuous (no corners).  Additionally, I want to support a valance on all sides of the layout and florescent lighting.

The general design for the backdrop is to have several linear portions which are well supported.  Styrene will then be screwed to the linear portions, and curve (unsupported) between the sections.  I currently do the same around the walls of the layout.  The key question became, how to support the backdrop for the linear portions?  Paul Miklos suggested using hollow core doors....Tune in next time to see what we do (If my descriptions are not clear, follow along for future installments of the SR&RL Diary.  I hope it becomes obvious)