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Well, there are actually a number of minor hurdles still to be gotten over, like building a minimum of half a dozen turnouts. While I do have the main assembly fixture built, I still have a number of small adjustable jigs for tapering and notching rail at various precise angles to design and build, and then make use of, not to mention the adjustable soldering jig for assembling the frogs. Once the designs for those are finalized, then I can make them and try them out and see if they are actually functional, and if so .... then build turnouts. Once I get past those hurdles that have been hanging me up for an inordinate amount of time, I suspect it will only take me a day to actually lay the track on the well aged roadbed that I graded long ago.

Full steam ahead sounds good, but it seems I've been at anchor with cold boilers for a very long time now, so I'll need to get a fire lite under "them" (read that as, under "me") sometime soon. Life seems to be conspiring to get in the way on an almost daily basis .... today it is mouse dropping under the sink!