I've been busy cutting up copper clad strips for regular track sleepers this afternoon. A laborious, monotonous process. Which reminded me that back in the early 1970s the copper clad sleepers (we called them PCB sleepers back then, short for Printed Circuit Board) came already cut to size and gapped. Not these days. On the other hand the longer strips for turnouts were the same width as the regular track sleepers when they should be wider, 4mm vs 3.3mm. So there is give and take between then and now, I suppose.

I have to admit that I don't remember PCB sleepers being all that expensive back then. But then copper prices have risen a bit!

The irony of all this activity is that I can't start track building because I cannot get hold of the right OO-SF track gauge. C&L Finescale are out of stock for maybe 4 or 5 weeks.