Dang, it's been 9 months since my last update to this project.
With the COVID ravaging our population, there have been no train shows to take the modules to.
I put all the modules into the transport case out in the garage and did a couple of bike trips since June.
In December I made a truck trip out west to shoot some video of the Wyoming Division Model Railroad and have been putting my time into editing that footage. In addition, I've been studying solar panels and finally awarded a contract to get a system installed on my house so I can run my trains by sunlight power.
Now that I have some free time, I've resumed work on the modules.
I brought all my carpentry tools up into the living room yesterday along with a few sheets of plywood and went to work measuring twice, cutting once and came up with an 80"+ radius modular curve, in three pieces. The picture doesn't look like it but it is in fact a 90 degree turn. Basically where a standard module would link into modules on each end, this system links into modules 4 feet further on each end and extends this mainline yard around a corner. Each section will fit into the transport case as well.
I'm laying the cork road bed now but I have to stop by a hobby shop to pick up some .20" styrene strip to build super elevation on the two mainline tracks that run through the yard. The regular yard track will stay flat. The black lines are inner most line of track and the outermost line of track.
Yeah, the saw dust does get everywhere, but then, that's what vacuum cleaners are for.