Cutting X-beams

Building a wooden bridge in scale zero is nice work, but you need real tools. Small doctor knives could work excellent with N scale, but here we need a small precision saw instead. Nevertheless, I have finished 2 cross-beams and still plenty to work on further.
Thought about what Frank suggested, and will name this bridge Ogle Winston Link when it is finished. That would be a tribute for a great photographer. Just have to get it done, Find a nice OWL poster and  print a small sign.

Dangerous crossing of a Lionel 289E over an unfinished bridge.

Building a bridge to ...

This weekend, I discovered that the Lionel 289E engine is a great engine to pull the Merkur coaches over the new track.

The video shows how smooth the Lionel 289E engine pulls the Merkur coaches 9751, 9330 and 9331.

Additionally I started with building the bridge to the other side (what else) and used the Lionel 817 caboose as the highest car in the rooster to measure the clearance.The bridge is still a bit rough, but it is a start.

New track for the layout

This Saturday, I went to Blik en Speelgoed to purchase some new Merkur tracks. The new track enabled me to remove the old half inner circle of Hornby-Meccano tracks and get some clean and level tracks in stead.

 Here you can see what I did with the Merkur switches; make a new switch yard.

 Plenty of new clean tracks, I would reckon.

Also the Weaver tank car that never fancied the Lionel 027 radius tracks, can now safely be placed on a side track without derailing it.

 In the middle of the larger table I used some my older Lionel 027 tubular tracks from the eighties to make a small yard.

 Here the Lionel 1668E crosses the temporary bridge.

Shake rattle and roll over new tubular tracks.
The moral of the last months; you can clean old tracks what you want, but you cannot get it level and straight, so in the end you will buy new tracks anyway.