Effective immediately, all Port Alberni freights are annulled, account lack of destination trackage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I had pulled up the entire temporary staging yard in the space of a couple hours, salvaging the track and turnouts for later use, and that left any chance of a Port freight running to nil. In Hunt for Red October<\/i>, Captain Ramius said that “on his arrival in the new world, Cortez burned his ships. Thus, his men were well motivated.” I had effectively done the same thing.<\/p>\n
With the temporary yard gone, I could get to work on building the proper one, and after acquiring appropriate materials (ie: a full box of sheet cork and way too many strips), Cam and I got to work on laying that down and securing it with contact cement. (Seriously, anyone who uses white\/yellow glue for cork needs to learn about Contact Cement.)<\/p>\n
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<\/a>A J-roller makes for good contact<\/p><\/div>\n
After that was all thoroughly sanded, tracklaying could begin. The first half of the Port trackage is rather complex. I spent on the order of several evenings fitting the skeletons of the turnouts together and discovered that I’ll have a route (not terribly likely to be used though) where you can travel about eight plus feet and not have the wheels touch any length of flex track – yes, all turnouts for 8 feet!<\/p>\n