K-line Shadow Rail

[Anonymous]

Building layout and want to keep my older magnetraction trains running at full force. I have a small test oval testing Lionel tubular, Gar-graves, Atlas O Steel. The tubular and the Atlas Steel seem to work well with the magnetraction. The Atlas O seems like it has a rough surface on some of the pieces which makes the train louder than it already is. The tubular track I put in rubber road bed from www.roadbed.net. It seems very quiet. Wonder if wnyone has tried K-line Super K Shadow Rail with magnetraction. Also how loud are the trains when they run ?

[Anonymous]

Have not tries the K-Line. I use GarGraves and am very happy with it. I have mine on cork, seems like the rubber would be more quiet, but I kinda like the clackity clack. Personal preferance.
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[Roger Bielen]

Its not so much the style of track, its how the track is fastened down to the sub-base. If you screww all the way down to sub-base the vibration is transmitted down no matter what road bed or track used. The idea is to isolate the track from the base that serves as a big sounding board. The usual methods are to fasten foam insulation board, Homasote, fiber insulation board etc. to the base plywood, usually glued. The track bed, in my case cork was glued to the insulation and held in place with staples. Next the track was screwed onto the roadbed not going all the way into the plywood. Additionally, after ballasting I removed the majority of the srews.

I used Gargraves track and Ross Switches. Also with today's sound systems you can't hear anything else anyway.

Have fun.