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Ha! Nick, you don't know what you initiated with those two little freight cars

Since everything is white over here and darn cold, too, I went down to the basement, had a look around.... and found some wood. But instead of sitting down and making a sound plan, I got out the old saw, screws, and glue and went to work. The outcome will be a turning loop module built to my own standards. Dimensions are 4 x 2 feet. The benchwork is made of 16 mm cabinet grade plywood, while the baseplate is 6 mm birch plywood; same goes for the fascia. As I don't like square corners at the end of a layout, I wetted the birch plywood, bent it into form and screwed it down. Next, I took a professional hairdryer, set it to high heat, and blew everything dry. Next step was to remove the screws, apply white glue, and screw everything back in place.

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I also wanted a siding and some spurs in order to have some shunting fun. Bad luck was, I only had 2 Peco code 55 turnouts. So I forged through my shelves and found a couple of Atlas code 55 turnouts. Great!
But Alas! No transition rail joiners in my boxes

. So out with the soldering iron... Only problem is that Peco code 55 flextrack is originally made of code 80 track and Atlas makes true code 55 track. I needed to either file down the first 8 ties of the Peco flex or shim the Atlas turnouts. Opted for filing since it is not visible when the track is soldered together.

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The Spectrum 2-8-0 on its first test run negotiated the Peco/Atlas combo without problems:

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Tomorrow, it is back to work again and so only the evening hours will be left to fit in the second (missing in the foto) siding. Hey Nick, these boxies look familiar?

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Note: I did not yet cut the ends at the module's front because I want to use them as alignments for the next module. As it is not sure yet wether or not I will take this module to shows, I epoxied the track to the module's head end. For subroadbed, I use cork strips (4 mm).

To be continued...
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Modular Railroading in N-scale

upnick · Engine Driver Joined: 02 Oct 2008 Posts: 1476

Hi Erhard

What have i done now lol yes those boxies look well on the module and it did keep you busy for a while

look forward to seeing more soon.

Do you recognise this DZ143 ?

started me off with my HO locos i probably will end up building a layout for soon

now i'm looking for good ditch light housings for it for the two fuctions not used at the moment

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