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Re: A bit of my model railroad history
« on: September 11, 2019, 06:37:35 pm »
No Benny, you did get that part right!

I have built an assembly jig for attempting to make my own turnouts, but still have some fixtures to make that are needed to machine and solder some of the sub-assemblies, like tapering the points and getting the frog angles set correctly. The rest of the trackage will be done with commercial Microengineering and Sunset Valley flex track.

But still, I haven't lost my mind so far as to need to assemble some half a million bents to trestle in umpteen miles of elevated railway as some have done. Heck, if I figured to get my trains to travel that far through the air ....  I'd put wings on 'em and call them aeroplanes!?!?   ;c)
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