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Shimming the track off the Hellgate

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Anonymous
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Shimming the track off the Hellgate
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 11, 2004 9:41 PM
Hello everyone and happy weekend!

I just set up my hellgate bridge over the center access to my layout and I noticed that the track coming off the bridge is not flush with the benchwork table top. I think I can use my vinylbed to make up for the distance, but having a dual roadbed may look a bit weird.
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phatkat64
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Posted by phatkat64 on Saturday, June 12, 2004 12:50 PM
Happy weekend!

I say if it makes you happy - do it!

If you want a suggestion, cut from a sheet of Woodland Scenics roadbed (they sell it in big sheets too), to the exact size of the roadbed plate in the bridge. Then, run the other roadbed on top of that.

It won't look double-stacked then, and it would look satisfactory.

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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 13, 2004 1:14 AM
Thanks! I used my vinyl roadbed and it worked without doubling it. I have it under each section of track and it looks okay.
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