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I have completed the Christmas layout and I had more problems than I thought I'd have.First off I used sound board instead of homasote - this was a good thing. The sound board is 1/4 the cost of homasote. I read about people cutting the sound board and all the fuzz they incountered. I got around this by cutting it with a utility knife. Three slices with the knife and I was all the way through the board. Sound board is my proudct of choise for a flat layout.The wife wanted it to look like there was snow on the ground. She found a short knap fleece type of fabric so I put it down. Then I layed and nailed the track on top of that. This is where the problems began. With the track setting on the soft fleece and nailed down there were high and low spots in the track. I tried adding more nails but this did not fix it. I ran the 14 car train for about 10 mins and cars started uncoupling themselves. So the only thing I could think of doing was to glue all the couplers (all my stock has rapido couplers.) I can hear all of you saying NO DON'T DO THAT. You have to remember this is just a Christmas layout that is one loop that is about 39"X48"s. I used rubber cement on all the couples and this fixed it. The nice thing about rubber cement is it rubs off with no problem.Of course I didn't find this fix before I had changed my original layout which was two passing loops. Maybe I'll change it back next year.I ordered the Christmas Village set of buildings and I was going to do some lighting with optic fibre. Well when I took the buildings out of their boxes I found they are a solid cast build. There went the lighting plans.I was runnig lighted passenger car and after about 15mins. the power cab would shut it"s self off as the load was to great. So it's time to disable the car lights. The power cab was just a cheapy that comes with the small starter sets. So now I need a bigger power cab.Of course all of the problems are fixable with the right time and money.
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