What Foam to Use for Layout Construction

Many enthusiasts use foam board to construct a layout because it’s lightweight and easily cut and shaped.  It can be used as the base of a layout and stacked, cut, shaped and scraped to form hills, mountains, stream beds, etc.  Folks new to layout building may not know what foam to use.  Heather47960’s question "What type of foam board is OK to use?" on the Google model railroad group received some good responses that are worth reading if you are a considering the use of foam board to construct your layout.  A link in one of the replies concerning Foam board Safety was interesting.

Read the entire thread on Google groups.

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