Having second thoughts about my clever “cheap fleximount” idea for attaching the track to the brick. What if the track moves around the washer until the washer obstructs the flangeway? Derailments. Calamity. Public inquiries, media outrage…no, getting carried away there. It’ll be the peaked cap next. But not good anyway.

I guess I could chicken out and put a screw through the sleeper like everyone else does. But I don’t want that degree of rigidity since it will doubtless cause gaps when the track expands or contracts.

I really, really need some track to test all this. Where’s the eBay fairy when you need her?