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Hello, <br />I have never used a re-railer, and don't intend to either. <br />The only place I think one would be useful is on a set up track if you have problems seeing the wheels to get them on the track. <br /> <br />When it comes to running the trains, if you lay the track correctly the trains will stay on. Garden trains are different to small indoor scales. <br /> <br />In the small scales like (N gauge) a wheel can jump off for no reason. It might then ride along the top of the ballast (which is like a concrete path because it's all glued together) and come back on at a re-railer. It doesn't work like that in G scale. <br /> <br />In G scale the wagons are heavier and don't just jump off for 'no' reason. Also the ballast isn't like a concrete path, so if the wheel goes off the sleepers into the soft ballast it will dig in and stop. The wheel flanges are also bigger and designed to cope with track that's not perfectly flat. <br /> <br />So to sum that all up: In a layout your size, if you can put the trains on the track by yourself OK, I wouldn't bother with any re-railers in the track.
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