Yet another minor improvement. The point in the Hospital fiddle yard is now properly soldered together and the rails are set to the right gauge.
The locos now trundle over it reliably and smoothly. I “finessed” the ends of the point blades a little with a needle file and emery paper to make the junction with the stock rails as smooth as possible. While filing the switch rails to a fine point is normal during the construction, finishing this shaping once everything is finished does seem to complete the bedding in process. . This isn’t strictly necessary in OO – the trick comes from the 3mm finescale layout – but a small amount of work makes things run as well as possible.
Time for the fiddle yards to be bolted back together, wrapped up and consigned to the shed until the next show. This frees up space for building something else…
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