06-19-2011, 03:08 PM
Gary, I had a close look at the surface of Palmetto Street with Google Street view to see what these cracks and other imperfections look like and then I just carved away hoping it would turn out right.
To protect the turnout points from plaster I first soldered two guard rails to my TO like I saw them in pics showing the street trackage of the Chicago Terminal Railroad. So the points would be protected from one side. Then before pouring the plaster I put pieces of stripwood (flush with the top of the rails) into the gaps between the stock rail (respectively the guard rail) and the point rails. So when I removed these pieces of stripwood after pouring the plaster, only little plaster had to be scraped off to make the point rails move freely again.
![[Image: la11.JPG]](http://www.cnw.mattheydesign.de/la11.JPG)
To protect the throwbar I glued some short pieces of ties around the throwbar as shown in the next pic. Then I covered the area with .013" styrene.
![[Image: la12.JPG]](http://www.cnw.mattheydesign.de/la12.JPG)
![[Image: la13.JPG]](http://www.cnw.mattheydesign.de/la13.JPG)
To protect the turnout points from plaster I first soldered two guard rails to my TO like I saw them in pics showing the street trackage of the Chicago Terminal Railroad. So the points would be protected from one side. Then before pouring the plaster I put pieces of stripwood (flush with the top of the rails) into the gaps between the stock rail (respectively the guard rail) and the point rails. So when I removed these pieces of stripwood after pouring the plaster, only little plaster had to be scraped off to make the point rails move freely again.
To protect the throwbar I glued some short pieces of ties around the throwbar as shown in the next pic. Then I covered the area with .013" styrene.
Kurt