Sugarwood Blog

Welcome to the warm days of summer. The month of July saw significant progress.

First, I built the 5-foot module I teased last month. Then, I moved the on module I had here to its proper location.
Next, I retrieved the other two modules that I had stored and hung them, and voila.

Here is a closer look from left to right.

The last photo shows where the final module will go. I have the parts, but I still need to build and mount it.

I haven’t seen it done before, so I guess it is unusual. As I had entered my track plan in AnyRail, I printed it at 1-1 scale and pasted it down with Mod
Podge. That accounts for the colours.

I completed the three left-hand curved turnouts and CADed up left and right sweepsticks and had them 3D printed.
Then the right-hand curved turnout was laid for the interchange tracks.

You may have noticed the green knob in the lower right corner of the photo above. It is the control for the turnout. It is connected
to a side-mounted slide switch.

The slide switch fits into a holder I designed and had 3D printed.

After that, I laid in the three key turnouts of the bakery.

As can be seen in the photos, I have brought in some of the building flats from my old layout. Storage has bent them, but they give some
context as to size. They were made using a Cricut. I will detail that process when I start building the structures for the layout.

My next goal is to connect the interchange tracks to the bakery turnouts.

Followed by laying the rest of the bakery track, start on the central runaround track, the Ozzy’s Pets spur, and hopefully get
power to the tracks..

I am undecided about hand-laying the track or using flex-track. I used flex-track on the interchange tracks and handlaid the connecting
rails using flex-track ties. Hand-laying lets me reuse rail from the old layout. At $10 CDN a stick for flex-track, it is something to consider,
though rail is not any better at $8 CDN a rail. Using that math flex is the way to go.

Until next Month.