Southern Pacific Switching Layout

[rrinker]

I will say this in defense of NOT handlayong - I use flex track and Atlas turnouts, and my trackwork is equally bulletproof, with larger steam locos flying through forward and reverse at warp speed and never derailing. I also seem to never have to clean my track - it's all nickle silver, and I run only metal wheels in all my rollign stock. The ony time I have anythign to clean off is after painting the rails - no matter how careful I try to be or how small a brush I use, I always get little spots ont he railhead here and there, and that definitely has to be clenaed off. But with regualr running, my track stays pretty clean with no extra attention. No stutters, no lights blinking, no table thumping. After finishing my main tonight I ran a train around at sane speed for a couple of laps, then cranked it wide open, way too fast for prototypical speeds - and it made it with no derailments. Have to try reverse yet - if I can BACK a train around at warp speeed then I will consider it done.

--Randy