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Another update (in case anyone is the slightest bit interested). 🙂

The Riddle book arrived today: looks like a good one; thanks for the heads up.

I have been in contact with USA Track; Kirk emailed me the other day and he's waiting on a supplier before he can send me some track. In the meantime, I discovered that if I take 2 sections of Gargraves S gauge track (which I have plenty of) and lay them parallel to each other with 1/2" spacing between the ties, it makes almost a perfect 2 1/8" rail spacing. Here are a few lousy pictures:

The blue tape is just to hold everything in place.

Now that I can run the "33" (at least for about four and a half feet 😐 ) I am surprised by how quiet and smooth running it actually is. It's almost disappointing; I figured part of the attraction to this old stuff would be the noise they make! 😄

Having a good time with this...

Mark in Oregon

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