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Hi,

After Gordon and I finished painting the ballast on the eight curved baseboards thoughts were turned to maybe laying a bit of track.  The track being used was reclaimed from my garden railway: the track’s wooden sleepers had rotted and had been replaced with Peco’s SM32 track which has plastic sleepers.  This left me with a lot of used and unused track and chairs.  The track to be used is Tenmille Bullhead track which uses plastic chairs which plug into the wooden sleepers.  The original sleepers of which I still have a lot of new ones and could get more are good for use in the garden (except for the rotting) but really are a little thick for use on a layout.  This coupled with trying to keep the track as low as possible to aid storage in its travelling trailer caused me to make thinner sleepers.  As somewhere near 1000 sleepers are needed this might take some time.  A lot of 3 mm plywood has been cut into 12 mm wide strips and stained.  A drilling and cutting jig has been made and hopefully the photographs will show the details.

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Regards Tony.