Dead Frogs In A Swedish Box

There, is that an obscure enough title?

Actually, if you're into 009 railway modelling or building micro layouts in general, then it probably isn't that obscure at all.

Hopefully this will be an account of the construction of a small 009 shunting layout based on Alan Wright's classic "Inglenook Sidings" scheme.

The project has come about partly as a result of Peco releasing (and my local model shop stocking) some 9" radius Insulfrog points in their Setrack range of plug-and-play 009 track, and partly because I had a growing number of 009 wagons that were too big for my other 009 layout.

Insulfrog is Peco's brand name for those of their points which have insulated or "dead" frogs made of plastic as opposed to Electrofrog, which have metal frogs which require polarity switching and thus are less suited to casual "train set" operation.

The Swedish Box is an IKEA APA box, which is a flat packed toy box about 25" x 12" x 9" on the inside, which makes them ideal for building a very small model railway in.

I had previously bought a couple of these with the intention of building layouts in them;two years later I have finally got round to starting one!

I suppose a photo would be a good idea......this should show the basics of the layout; the APA box with a piece of 1/2" ply cut to fit snugly inside it, with a cut out in the front for a small water feature.
Various items of rolling stock are scattered around as are the two Peco points.....