Thanks Jan, that was a great tutorial and now I understand that I’m wasting my time trying the align the roundhouse to the turntable using the SCARM position points. I pretty much assumed how it worked, but I didn’t realize how precise the indexing was. I was also curious why he didn’t use a straightedge to align the whisker track, but he might have done so previously or just has enough experience to eyeball them. I also noticed that he had some whisker tracks aligned using curved track, something I thought was to be avoided, though I never quite understood why. The tracks in your photo are centered in the roundhouse, but aren’t perpendicular to the turntable. Are you saying I can add a section of curved track to connect them as long as the radius of curve is big enough for the engines, something like O-72?
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