MOVING SPIKE-BY-SPIKE

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Spike-by-spike track moves forward,

Tie-by-tie covering land…

Commerce miniature shaping progress,

Focussed on each task at hand.

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N scale track fits in places

Thought impossible before…

Problem-solving special cases

Suddenly end a war.

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Challenges are remeasured,

Answers spring up after years…

Of discouraged gandy dancers

Saying, “Should we put track here?”

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Certain tracks convoluted,

Are snaked out of many knots…

A spaghetti layout substituted

With a track plan having open spots!

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Nail or gluing down by spot tack,

Ensures things won’t hit the floor…

As designers fix a problem

Cracks in bench work–nothing more!

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Decided to go for a turntable,

Switching ends is lots of fun…

Plus the matter  of train couplers

Certain engines not in front.

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Up- or downstream is the question,

When portraying waterfalls…

It’s confused with flexible planning–

Which end up when nature calls?

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Fictional, yet firmly planted

In the villages near home…

‘Though they never had a railroad

They’ll be blessed by boiler foam.

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N scale progress sure and steady

After years of certain doubt…

Soon we hope it will be ready

For this railroad’s “coming out”!!!

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–Jonathan Caswell