F-UnitMad Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 .... .... .... .... .... .... .... Â Â ....... As Debs makes Proper Track Gauges and associated devices, I humbly bow to her opinion..... Â Of course it's not the first time she's seen that picture... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 You mean those AREN'T proper track gauges? - like wot I use for HO? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted July 24, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 24, 2012 Use whatever gauge suits. I made N gauge track using a bolck of ply 9mm wide its just a bit easier if you have suitable gauges and two or three that are exactly the same size does help a little. Don Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof Klyzlr Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 Dear Andrew, Â "Cheapest you can find" can be $0 if you already have some HO flextrack "instock" (Hmm, I wonder if "oversized for N" Code 80 would work for really-old/light industrial spurs??? ;-) ). Â In the case of "ChicagO Fork", AUD$2 "GT" nickel silver HO flextrack from Tom's Hobbies in Sydney gave me a pair of 3' rails ready of re-laying to "2R US O gauge", whereas ME Code 100 _per_length_ (one single rail) was priced cheapest in Sydney at around AUD$8 or more (IE the equivalent ME "pair of Rails" we're in the AUD$15-18 range)??? Â Think of the cheap-as flextrack you normally wouldn't even consider using for HO, and go for it... ;-) Â Happy Modelling, Aim to Improve, Prof Klyzlr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 What rail did you use. Trying to save as much money as I can. You said to use the cheapest one you could. Any hints? My local model shop had a box full of 'damaged' Hornby Flextrack going for £1.50 a length when I built my O scale layout. Some rails were a bit bent, in most cases some of the sleeper webbing had broken or come off the rails - all of no consequence to me, and to make it even more of a bargain, Hornby Flextrack is 1 metre long - an extra 3 inches per length over Peco!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 The turnout in post #18 doesn't look too bad in that request for proposal. Here are a couple of photos I took of a short stretch of yard tracks with turnouts.    10 years ago I drove a locomotive through this section of track (5mph and I thought I was going to get thrown out of the cab window as it was rocking so severely!). Keep in mind that this track gets 100 car unit grain trains over it to get to the grain elevator. Of course, it did seem that almost every week a derailment would happen there...    Cheers  Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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