12-30-2010, 03:42 PM
It looks good, Robert. I just noticed a couple of things with the bench work on the upper track. It may just be a camera trick, but the back of the upper track appears to have a "bump" where it looks like two sub roadbed boards are butt joined. The other thing I noticed is the butt joint near the front on the same level. I think you have potential for derailments in both places. I would cut at least a 6-8 inch long splice plate to fit under every butt joint to keep things solid and level where the sub roadbed transitions form one piece of plywood to the next. Clamp and glue or screw and glue the splice plate to both sides of the butt joint to keep everything nice and tight. Getting everything right as you build will eliminate problems with operation down the line. On the butt joint to the front, it looks like the riser may be too close for a good splice plate. An easy fix is to shorten the riser by the thickness of the plywood you are using for the splice and slide the splice plate between the riser and the sub roadbed.