Today I took it down to the bones...tomorrow, no bones!
Most of the Atlas 2-rail Flex Track is re-usable.
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Good Man there Hal...it is a worthwhile pursuit.
Bob
Thanks, Bob!
It took me 6 months to complete my layout, and I'm sure it'll take me a month to rebuild this Loop! (I have another project working concurrently...a 700,000-Volt Van de Graaff Generator)
I enjoy working slowly and methodically.
NO HIGHBALLING IN THE YARDS... (From Emperor of the North)
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Caution...Loop washed out ahead...
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Ahhh progress...it's a good thing. 
YES, CHRIS...
Demolition is complete, and rebuilding begins tomorrow with lag-bolting a 10' 8" 2x4 along the window wall.
I'll be able to use some of the original 2x4's (on the floor) for the rest of the framework.
Incidentally, I viewed some of the video of your hand-laying trackwork, and you're very meticulous in modeling the prototype track, with fishplates and all!
I'm happy enough with the flex track from Atlas, which is already attached to the ties, and is spiked to the roadbed through pre-drilled holes. My unsteady 77-year-old hands would not permit hand-laying, I'm afraid!
Cheers and good work!
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Originally Posted by Bad Order Hal:
Thanks, Bob!
It took me 6 months to complete my layout, and I'm sure it'll take me a month to rebuild this Loop! ( I have another project working concurrently...a 700,000-Volt Van de Graaff Generator)
I enjoy working slowly and methodically.
NO HIGHBALLING IN THE YARDS... (From Emperor of the North)
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The Van de Graaff Generator was my big Science Fair competition in 1962! Only 500K, though, with a 14-inch Stainless sphere. He came in 2nd Place; I received First with my operating Gas Chromatograph. Great Memories.
HEY SKYHOOK,
I designed and built a Million-Volt VDG about 9 years ago, but the discharges penetrated the ceiling of my game room, arcing to the lighting circuits and tripping breakers all the time, do I dismantled it, and now that $300 30-inch sphere is a garden ornament!
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Good to hear that you will be able to re-use some material during your project, that always helps the budget. Also thank you for the compliment, I am a hand laying fool. 
But When I switched over from 3 rail I really wanted to give it a try and I'm glad I did, it really has afforded me the opportunity to get very creative with my track work. I am currently working on my Roundhouse, TT and coaling facilities and I just don't know how I would have done it w/o hand laying my track. That said I agree that the Atlas code .148 track is very good and I'm using it and some ME code .148 in some areas that are just too hard to hand lay in. Keep the pics of your progress coming.
HEY CHRIS,
Whether you're a hand-layer or not, I congratulate you for advancing to O-Scale 2-Rail!
I built my indoor Folded Dogbone with the original idea of laying 120-feet of HO track for running ON-30 Narrow-Gauge, but cancelled my track order in exchange for the (much more expensive) Atlas O-Scale 2-Rail Flex Track, which allows me to run full-size O-Scale equipment on Standard-Gauge track. (Which is actually 60 scale inches wide instead of the proper 4' 8-1/2 ".
I'll keep the pix coming!
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