A pile of nails and a tack hammer got a workout this morning. We laid the flex track, code 80 on our single outside circle. It was fairly frustrating using the nails as I mangled a few of the plastic ties, had rail lines shift when hammering and generally a pain!
This photo captures my frustration with laying much of the track. I started out simply nailing the nails in part way and then went back with a nail set and drove them fully in. I had 2 areas where it was really difficult to join track. One in a corner where the rail joiners left a nice derail spot and the last piece of track ended up with a bunch of small bends that I will need to fix in the future, but for now, we have trains.
Dragging the derailed cars around the curve. I did manage to "fix" the bad spot by aligning the track a bit more. One section was more straight into a curve than it should have been, which derailed a few cars. Bend, nail, Dremel and it was better.
In the end, we all had some fun taking turns running the trains. Many of our locomotives that had sat for over 30 years didn't work, but we had 2 of 10 working. We also had 2 newer locomotives that severely under performed. I an not sure why, maybe the low profile wheels on code 80 track? Anyway, it was fun!
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