This was the overall effect. Some trunking had been laid along with places to put wiring cabinets.

The centre section of the layout where the surface of the earth drops below the track level was built as an open frame. A section of 6mm MDF was cut for the track surface and various lumps of wood built up to support the track bed. I generally try to make differences in baseboard height be standard wood widths. That means pieces of wood on their side can be used to support baseboards so that they are reliably flat. In this case it looks like the track bed is the width of 50mm wood above the frame.

The mainline three tracks (nearest) and the goods loop line (furthest right) have got seperate bridges over the road. I liked the idea of the two different pieces of railway being built at different times and so a second bridge being needed later.

Track is all Peco Code 55 long points on the front of the layout. Since this section of layout was "up in the air" between embankments the point motors, track wiring and screw terminal blocks got a little busier under this section.