FNF - Well here it is, Saturday evening, 9:00 PM and I'm closing down shop.
(Mary is in bed and asleep already, my care taker part of making sure she is okay for the nite.) My FNF report is quite interesting. Today I pulled up nine foot of old track that was laid back in 1970. It was my eastern grade to the upper mainline. What a mess, pull, cut, scrape and vacuum. I'm now going to use SHS flex track on this grade and I had pre-soldered together two sections and found that I really needed nine feet. Ouch! What is most interesting is I needed two more hands and Mary volunteered, we placed the flex track in position so as to sort the problems out, that's when we discovered we needed another 3 feet. Now that that is solved, I must get the roadbed base ready for the laying of the new SHS flex track. Not an easy job, I really need a rasp file so as to feather down the base for the new roadbed. This area was never laid correctly, but now I'm sure I'll have a better curve than what was put in there 40 years ago. Ha! Of course this area is very hard to get at and part of it runs under an upper mainline bridge, but it will be worth the effort and make the entire main line run more efficiently. My model railroad has hills and dales, and were I to do it over it would be laid flat out like the many I see pictured on this list! Well folks, G-nite! Bill (FRaley)
