Progress on the Canadian Southern

[Wiredup]

Got pretty far the last few days... and uploaded some pictures too!

So, things are getting interesting... I have a good portion of a single track of the main down now...making up about 25% of the mainline run. And the beautiful part? My Heavy Mountain and 3 passenger cars navigate it quite well! (even for being the inside track of 13" radius!) My Broadway Limited E8A doesn't like it too much... but I should probably clean the track a bit more.

Anyways, picture time! time to follow along!

First off, a lot of track bed has been laid... like the whole main line!!!







after that I started focusing on the junction... it's becoming a very busy place with a few turnouts populating the area...



After testing the fit of the junction and getting it as close to the trackbed as possible... I realized something didn't add up, but I got a plan to fix it... so I started to solder up the junction, file the edges and rail tops smooth, and wire it up...



Then once I ran the first main line lead to the junction.... all heck broke lose:



My error in lining up the trackbed proves to be a bigger error than originally anticipated... I'm gonna let the caulk for the lead track dry and then attack it later tonight... but I think what I'm going to have to do is just add some track bed pieces to the area around the junction. Chances are this will be in the middle of a town anyways, so I'd be laying down a sheet of track bed here anyways to keep the town on even height.

Hopefully I can have a full circuit within 10 days!