Starting Fiddle Yard and Loops 22nd December 2011

By the end of the open weekend we had the track layed on the front boards.  Now we needed to get the loops and fiddle yard done.

Here in glorious blurryvision you can see Ian and Jem starting on the fiddle yard while Peter and Richard start work on the outer loop of the main line.

Having positioned the first set of points at the left hand side of the fiddleyard it was decided to start laying the outer most loop from both end and let them meet in the middle. 

Here you can see again how Peter's blowup of my plans aided in speeding up track laying.

Outer curve was set at 24 inch radius, which was about the biggest curve we could fit on the board. The next curve was designed to run parallel to it, which would have made it a smaller radius but as the curves are going to be covered by the upper boards we started the inner mainline curve a little earlier and made it a 24 inch radius curve as well.

Here's Peter working on the the first curve of the outer loop