I'd love to do it Mike if only I didn't hate driving : ) and my schedule's not even going to let me install new gutters on the house this weekend... Have you tried uShip or something like that as well? I'd have to think that though that Fastenal would be the best option - they're a great shipper and they can hold on to your stuff for a short period while you arrange to go pick it up, and if you want to pay extra, they'll hold it longer

I was thinking if you could get it to the location where the Oz container leaves from? That might only be a single Fastenal trip?

Yeah when I visited NZ in Oct for Dad's funeral, I had to stay care of Her Majesty's Hotel for two weeks. I only got out of paying the $3k privilege because of the bereavement. I checked again last night and it's still 3k so I'll need to save up for the end-of-year trip. The only upside of it was I was staying in a resort-style hotel, the weather was sunny, I had a ground floor room with patio opening onto the courtyard, and the girls in the hotel couldn't think of anything else to do for two weeks except sunbathe outside my room. I didn't really notice because I was SO busy staring at my computer.....

Thanks Mike, yes he had a good life, no complaints. Not much of a talker though : )
Yes track frames - I was looking on the interwebs last night at a plasma torch which got me thinking if I could spend a bit of time to learn CAD, I could draw up the plates to be cut and send the files to someone to cut out for me. The two side pieces are just regular old channel I believe. I can get hold of channel with either straight or sloping sides so should be able to match that up. The other option is to get hold of D3 track frames - I don't know which would be the better (read: time, cost, complexity) option - to get D3 frames and modify, or build new D2 frames. Given it's going to have all D3 running gear, I'd think that the D3 frames might be the better option. What do you think?