collapsible 4' x 8' table?

Merry Christmas to all. I finally got rid of my big sheet of plywood and its cumbersome support structure that I used for several years to set up the holiday layout. It just ate up too much storage space in my tiny house. Now I need something else. I'm thinking about making a lightweight framework of 1" x 2" lumber with routed ledges to support eight small pieces of plywood, each slightly smaller than 2' x 2'. Some sort of easy to assemble and break down system to fasten the legs and horizontals together, and then the little squares of ply just drop in. The legs will be short, maybe sixteen inches or so. I just run a couple of ovals for my old lionels, nothing fancy, around the christmas tree.

So has anyone made anything like this, or is something like this commercially available?

Thanks for any help or ideas...

Jon

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Jon=A0Scott) Merry Christmas to all. I finally got rid of my big sheet of plywood and its cumbersome support structure that I used for several years to set up the holiday layout. It just ate up too much storage space in my tiny house. Now I need something else. I'm thinking about making a lightweight framework of 1" x 2" lumber with routed ledges to support eight small pieces of plywood, each slightly smaller than 2' x 2'. Some sort of easy to assemble and break down system to fasten the legs and horizontals together, and then the little squares of ply just drop in. The legs will be short, maybe sixteen inches or so. I just run a couple of ovals for my old lionels, nothing fancy, around the christmas tree. So has anyone made anything like this, or is something like this commercially available?

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That is basic modular railroading. You're just making smaller modules than most but the process is still the same.

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