The big mistake
Despite all the careful planning, somewhere, in the back of my mind, I had a nagging feeling that a costly mistake was going to occur at some stage.
So far, I’d built up about 30 turnouts, which is about a third of what will be required. They are all hand-laid on timber sleepers (or point timbers in Victorian Railways parlance), based upon the templates produced by Fast Tracks. For simple turnouts, the fabricated Fast Tracks frog and guard rails were substituted with Right-O-Way castings. For the three-ways and other special pointwork, I used Fast Tracks jigs to build up the frogs.
During construction, the turnouts were tested by using a NMRA standards gauge and by propelling a consist of longwheelbase four-wheel wagons, in my case U and…
