Hi all,

It was asked of me in another thread about the current status of my CNJ Bronx Terminal layout. Admittedly it's been some time (OK, a few years...) since I have posted anything about it.

After Fast Tracks relocated in 2011 there really wasn't much space for the layout available, so for some time it sat in storage. In that time I did take it to a few train shows, but there was no progress on the layout at all as there simply wasn't anywhere to work on it.

Today Michael Rose and the Mrs. visited us for great food, fellowship, and fun!  My day started at 7am as I fired up the smoker to smoke the 6-1/2 pound prime rib roast that I had marinated overnight in the fridge.  Four hours of smoking with apple wood and it was medium rare.  Below is a shot of the roast, a rib, and some potato wedges just before consumption.  Not show was broccoli, rolls, and butter. Our guests also brought us a nice bottle of merlot!

With an over abundance of caution our mayor decided to shut down city government today (friday) to keep folks off the streets. So that means a day all to myself in the train room as the better half did have to work. Many projects completed that I wanted to do. Many more to do. So this is what retirement feels like. I could get use to this.

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    I just ran into a video by MRH on YouTube demonstrating the laying of ME Flex Track. While the directions ar good, I would like to bring up something that I do while laying this sometimes "stubborn" track.

    While we can go into many different ways to align a curve, eventually we will have to run equipment on that track we just put down, and the cars will always tell us what a great job we did- or tell us we were sleeping at the switch when we should have been aligning that curve!