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Reply to "Modular Group News, Update 3/14/24"

We finished laying the track on module #2 today. After tweaking on this for so long on RRTrack, it's really nice to see the trackwork come to life. Jerry's Reese's car is being used for the first track checks. Nice and smooth, and noisy. The 036 curves make a zippy turn, but no less than what you'd expect for a toy layout.

Last night I kicked around the idea of adding extra 5" sections in the center of the curves to make the OA trackwork wider. But, I was not excited about taking module #1 all apart to do it over again. We spent a lot time centering/squaring/spacing on that first module in order to get it just right. A heck of a lot of work for an extra 5" 

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Module #1 is disconnected and stacked to the left. We have modules #3&4 setup. The goal is to get the track on these two modules tomorrow. Then we'll take down module #2 and setup modules #5&6.

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Don't think you can just snap FasTrack together, screw it down and move on. It's coming together slowly, but surely. This is a 12x15 layout. I can say it 100 times, but when it actually comes together you realize that this sucker is going to be big. 

A lesson-learned: If you use FasTrack for a modular layout; on the "joining tracks" you'll want to take nippers and cut off the nub that is used to snap the track sections together. That way when you put the modules together, those pieces slide together on the track pins only. We are also putting 2 track screws on the sections adjacent to the joining tracks.

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