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Saturday, August 23, 2025

Sometimes plans just don't work out!

 Sometimes plans just don't work out. You can see in the photo below that the base of the fuelling point is just too wide to fit between the sleepers. I could just leave it and have a lopsided structure but no, I had a plan!

My Last Great Project

All I needed to do was raise the base above the sleepers. That was the plan! So out came some balsa the same thickness as the sleepers and I made a base for the base! The only problem was that trying to get a loco onto the fueling point, the loco now collided with the base. So it was onto plan B. That involved lifting the glued track and swinging it a couple of mm out.

My Last Great Project
 
My Last Great Project

With that done, the base now fitted between the sleepers and locos no longer collided with it.

My Last Great Project

So now it is place all I need to do is ballast the track. That is a job for another day.

My Last Great Project

My Last Great Project

My Last Great Project


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