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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by egmurphy Morning all, You were right Bob, took the putty knife to the sections of roadbed that needed to be revised and I was amazed just how easy it pried up. Yeah, I’ve had a block (got a ton of them) against redoing stuff. That’ll be a good one to break. And took the big step of actually gluing down the first piece of track yesterday. Hey, if the last spike is the “Golden Spike”, what’s the first one? If I’m going to make any further progress today I need to practice soldering, as I need to make up a batch of rail joiners with wire leads. [/quote] ED: Not to be redundent, as it might have already been posted, I solder my feed wires to every other piece of track. I may have a switch soldered to two lengths of flex track and that is considered one piece. I found that is was to hard to drill the hole and get the track lined up and the wire through the hole when the feed is attached to the bottom of the rail joiner, it is much easier to lay the track, drill the hole, and then solder the wire. Of course, I'm using code 83 rail and I can see what I'm doing because I own an optiviser (two in fact). I solder all of the connections on curves and usually have a gap every two sections of track on the straight. After the track is where I want it and the trains have run over it for at least a week usually two, I fire up the soldering iron and go around the new track. The curves are soldered as they are laid so they don't kink. (I don't want a KINKY railroad). I haven't had any trouble with expansion on any of my layouts and some have had a temp diff as much as 80 degrees. MR did a piece about bullitproofing (PHIL - are you listening[:D]) rail and I am a firm believer in that. The only time I have derailments is when the club comes down for a get-together. Of course that's when the tortoises decide not to switch and the throttles don't respond. Normal visitation jitters. I can attach 40 cars to several locos and pu***hem backwards and not have a derailment. I need several locos because I've got a 2.25% to 2.5% grade. My normal train length is 9 to 14 cars. Let me get back to work Ya'll have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY Bob
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