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Your club had a quite detailed and functional layout. Understandable but a shame it had to be dismantled. I always feel like the amount of work and ,well...art, that goes into these should be preserved.
I'm eager to see your garden railroad empire grow. I'm impressed of you folks that hand lay your rail...It is a tedious looking job, and it takes long enough just laying out flex track. And hand built turnouts? Puh-lease, I would go mad. The poor coroner would have to scrape my tiny brain off the shop ceiling.

Sorry to tell you this Benny, but there was very little hand laid trackage on the Slim Princess layout. I did build a three way stub switch for the narrow gauge yards, and modified some switches to allow dual gauge usage, while I also laid the third rail into a pre-existing and already glued down section of mainline that had already been laid with standard gauge flex track.