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beginner has issues with new track layout.
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cudaken;<BR><BR>glad to see you decided to stay with us; your post sounds like you have things turned around and you've turned that frown upside down. And it only took $10.00 or so to do it.<BR><BR>I had a similiar experience in 1978; I had not had a home layout in over fourteen years - I had belonged to three clubs in those fourteen years - but I was now retired from the Air Force and I commenced to build one. Didn't have room for more than an oval and it didn't take me very long to get it track down and running - and nothing did. I had built a bunch of cast-metal locomotives - Hobbytown, Bowser, Cary/Mantua - and nothing would go past one point without, at a minimum, slowing down. I finally broke down and got a GAUGE. My problem was not with spikes but with an errant track nail; the GAUGE promptly told me that the GAGE was narrow; after I reset the track nail and reGAGEd everything everything ran flawlessly.<BR><BR>Texas Zephyr:<BR><BR>You mention in your post that you had not mentioned using silver solder because most modelers would not would not want to go to the expense; I use it and hang the expense. I discovered years ago that there are some things that you just cannot [I]really[/I] save money on - this is one of them!!
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