A couple of words about roadbed and benchwork

Anybody who has built a model railroad using conventional materials - dimensional lumber, plywood and other sheet goods, such as homasote, will tell you that there are variances in size of product.

Working through construction is sometime like a endless grafting project working to get stuff lined up level so your trains don't have to suffer through uneven track that causes operational problem like uncouplings, derailments and other problems.

One of the steps I take before track goes down is hitting the cork with a belt sander to take these variations out.

Case in point from Doswell from the previous fall season (2019)

You can see the high and low spots by just looking, so that tells you some remediation is called for here.

Note my sharpie'd notes on what needs to be done.