Back from another trip down to my Dad's.
The few days I was gone, my Dad manages to get the plywood for the yard spliced together and the risers in place. The first thing he had to show me was how dead on level the whole yard was. He said,"no cars are gonna be rollin' in this yard".
Here's the proud guy now...
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Well, Santa stopped by his house early (for some reason he was dressed in a brown uniform and his sleigh was brown too...Hmm?
) and he dropped off a few boxes of track. We decided on Atlas code 83 for most of it, and the curved turnouts are from Walthers or Peco. Why Atlas doesn't make curved turnouts baffles me!?
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Here I'm laying out the track to get the centers marked. I used push pins to hold it in place...Alot of them too. I have the dent in my thumb to prove it, hehe.
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After it was in place I dotted ever few ties to get the centers. Also making any notes that might be important, like the ends of turnouts, size of turnouts, rerailers and if they are cut or not, etc. The curved sections I just left as dots but the straight areas I connected with a straight edge.
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More to come...