19: Fill the gaps with Celotex sawdust.
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20: Turnouts laid temporarily in place.
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Then use a sanding block with medium-grit sandpaper to
remove rough edges and ensure that the top of the roadbed is
smooth and flat for laying track (18).
Now it’s time to use some of that fuzzy dust! Grab a handful
and rub it firmly across the top of the roadbed into cracks, to
fill the slots in the curved sections. Rub in a circular motion.
Then lightly sand again and vacuum up the excess. Filling the
gaps will save a lot of ballast when the time comes (19). In
figure 20, the turnouts have been temporarily placed on the
crossover roadbed. The squared ends of the center insert were
then rounded and sloped with a hobby knife.
To lay the roadbed under a switch, a length of roadbed is
split and the correct size wedge inserted (21). For the section
of the layout which features a sugar mill, and narrow-gauge
18: Sand the roadbed top smooth.
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