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I’ve installed and leveled the subroadbed for the extension along the other side of the corridor (opposite to the single-track extension on the other side), laid the roadbed, laid the flextrack, and built the turnouts at each end. Will still need power, but since it will connect directly to module 1 it can draw some track power directly from there.
I used the Homabed branchline roadbed for the first time, looks good except for the hump I just noticed in one rail of the siding. Oh well, it’s a siding.
Plans are to scenic this with maybe a grade crossing and some scrubby trees, but otherwise it’s just sixteen feet of straight track. I plan on extending it another six feet at the north end, which will have a couple of curves and some hilly scenery to disguise the fact that the track will be going through another wall. The grade is steep enough that cars left on either the main or the siding will definitely roll.
So since last fall I’ve added twenty feet of new track on the Conway sub and rehabbed another twenty, and now added a total of about thirty track-feet more. Main advantage of this extension is that the siding can act as a staging track, so I could actually run a train out, run around it and return. Could, that is, once I close two other major gaps in the mainline.
Ron Merrick
