I’ve used standard PVC Pipe cement with good results. Cheap and available.
Lowes sells an Azek glue. Expensive and sets way too slow.
At work, where cost wasn’t an issue, Loctite HY4070. Very fast set & gap filling.
Thanks Jon.
Is it thin like MEK or thicker and spread with a brush?
Which? The Loctite comes in a syringe and is fairly thick and pricey. The Azek stuff is ball swab applied like the PVC pipe cement.
I would try your MEK on some scrap. It might work fine.
I tried some MEK on scraps and it seems to hold ok but not solid.
No MEK is not the answer.
Regular clear PVC cement works very well. Buy a bunch of small, cheap brushes to use and throw them away after each session.
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I’ve been quiet on the layout progress for a while because I made a stupid mistake. Basically I had to tear down the majority of the railroad and rebuild. Now I’m almost back to normal. It actually worked out good because I replaced the hand laid track with Sunset Valley track and I realized through some calculations my original spacing of buildings was way off. Nothing too exciting per say but @Neil_Wiggins it’s my turn now. 
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Sorry to hear about your setback, Craig. I am glad that you were able to recover from it and that the fix will be better than the original!
Eric
Glad to hear you got your problems worked out and are moving forward again.
Hand laid track looks really good but commercial track is so much easier and less trouble to maintain.
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Yes the hand laid track looked good but with the ties moving on me it became a pain in the butt. Even with the turnouts I’m having a few issues. I think I’ll slowly replace the turnout ties with PVC ties glued to PVC board so they can’t move. Ironically the hand laid ties worked better when it was just a floating trench system on the ground.
All this track is actually from Paul Burch and his former railroad.
This is approximately the old design of the building layout for the Redmond section. Blue is road/parking lots areas.
This is the and more accurate representation. Makes the siding a lot bigger as well.
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It’s a slow slog but its coming along. Between life and just general household tasks it’s taken a lot longer than I wanted but hey its a hobby.
I bet you’re glad that’s tucked away now Craig. Looking really good. I really like the idea of a single track going somewhere, and doing stuff on the way. You’ve got it down nicely.
I’ll give you a few months to catch up huh? We don’t stop for winter down here.
(edit) tbh, it’s probably pre convention panic setting in… 
Cheers
N
Once again…that word…“winter.” Explain!
Craig,
Glad to see all that track going back to work. It went to a good home.
Phase 1 of the track is officially in and rolling. Still a lot of tweaking and minor repairs to make but the layout can handle a car rolling from staging to the end of track without help from the 0-5-0. A total of four duckunders but during a formal ops, that number hopefully drops by 1.
The goal was to have something roll across the layout by the end of the school year and I’m a month early!
Now I can focus on cleaning up the layout, and backyard along with the last few things in order to get ops started and that includes some new batteries in the locomotive and tweaking sound files.
Video runs from the end of track to staging.
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Craig;
It’s looking very good, although I suspect some pruning of 1:1 bushes may be on your agenda.
Best, David Meashey
Yep. I need to prune those for sure. I pruned the darn thing last spring. I guess I need to go more aggressive. 
As long as you’re happy with the mighty 0-5-0 helper engine, give yourself another year!
Congratulations on the successful test!
Thanks. It felt really good to finally roll something along the tracks for once. Now I’m ready to push forward with the next section and forget cleaning up the backyard. But I told myself that I would get the backyard done before creating more of a mess in the front.
On the list that’s not railroad related: build the retaining wall blocks around the fire pit area, bring in a ton of play sand for the boys and section off the digging pit and rebuild a fence section. But some of those projects require a working pickup to grab stuff and guess what’s been sitting in the side yard for a couple months now with a dead battery and some other minor repairs? 
I don’t think my wife would appreciate me filling the suburban with play sand but I can get away with lumber…
I’d like to rip the whole thing out actually. It’s one of about a dozen native wild huckleberry plants scattered throughout my yard. I enjoy huckleberries but they are a pain to pick and these ones taste more like a blueberry rather than true red huckleberry. There’s another plant in there as well along with another huckleberry plant about 3’ over.