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Started on module 14, the first place where track will go through a wall. This one is actually in two pieces, and I’ll use bolts to hold them together on the two sides of the wall like I did module 6, the first turnback loop which represents Sallyards. That module was intended to be in two pieces for handling but once I got it upstairs, that proved unnecessary. There are six legs but it isn’t the most stable tipping-wise, which will be OK because the direction it would tip will be anchored to adjoining modules.
My wife says ‘those beautiful walls, you’re going to cut holes in them?’
Many of the modules are/will be exercises in geometry, where I calculate angles and curve radii to meet some specific need. This layout doesn’t meet Free-Mo rules in so many ways, but the framing for sure is based on those design practices. And it really will fit together in only one way. One compromise already — the Sallyards siding is being located between Yates Center and Eureka, not between Eureka and Summit. Oh well — El Dorado, which will be modified from the existing Wichita 25th St. scene, isn’t even in the right room.
I have connected modules 4 and 5 and run locomotives across the joint. Only after I did that did I see the hump at the joint, but at least now I know what to look for when installing the fitter rails.
Ron Merrick
