Alas! These shots are of club modules that have been in service for well over ten years in many different environments. This is the first time for this amount of shrink wrath. I have toyed with using steel construction for new modules with foam decking. Or at least using plywood 1x4 strips for the framing versus standard lumber. At this time we will be exploring putting in additional expansion gaps in the track as part of the track repair. Also, I think abandoning the good old Atlas 5" section tracks that connect the modules should be replaced with flextrack pieces. I witnessed places where the Atlas track was busting the module tracks whereas in places where we used flex track, these pieces just bowed as seen in the above photo without damaging the module tracks.

Food for thought! The n-scalers way.

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Bruce (McToots) McElhoe
KAMRI President
and Web Site Moderator