Here's a picture of the reason for the delay. The two pieces of the sub-roadbed somehow got out of alignment while they were clamped down in order to bond the wood with the sub-roadbed. In order to fix this, I had to move the tracks up a 1/4 inch on the track plan in order to make room for the switchstands I plan to use for the turnouts.
I also had to cut the track plan prints in order to make them fit the sub-roadbed. I designed this little jig to hold the paper and a scale ruler. As you can see from the pictures, it's pretty simple. Just a piece of pinkboard and a couple of straight pins. Worked pretty well too. Only slipped once and that was of no consequence.
As I worked at cutting the printouts to size, just for fun I guess, I went ahead and numbered them. Even though there was very little chance that I would put one of these on the sub-roadbed out of order. After all this would be the third time around with this little trackplan. I probably could have glued these down in my sleep...But old habits die hard so every piece got a number.
So here I am, a little further down the sub-roadbed and the difference in the two is becoming a lot more apparent.The difference now is at least 1/4 of an inch. But as I glue the new track plan down, I sight down the durn thing and ensure there will be no mistakes this time! Third time lucky!
The final shot shows the finished Sub-roadbed assembly. |
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