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<p>I flop track down starting with one specific track.</p><p>Final adjustments take time until everything looks right. I have to do it at the layout and not a computer program.</p><p>Im ignoring the fact that my train room has a tilt to one corner, all 4 walls not 90 degree corners and there is no flat horizonal surface anywhere. Things are really crooked in the Ozarks. =)</p><p>It will be more or less following the edge of the table but not particularly. I have about a foot to either side of the ROW to play with.</p><p>I finished one industry this month and determined the trackwork to serve this industry. The final placement of the entire industry, two switches and three tracks will happen near one of the corners. When I get enough tracks in and verify clearence I move on down the line.</p><p>But perfectly straight? Perfectly spaced with the table edge? Perfect in all measurements? Not happening. Now what will happen is the laser will detect and help correct flaws in sectional track alignment =)</p>
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