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I assume what you are planning to do is lay the track and pour concrete over it. I thought about doing that, but any track mantaince would be an issue, and that thin of concrete will bust out here (IA) because of frost. <br />Well I plan to do something similar, and here is my idea. I plan to grove out, like you into the exsiting concrete, but I plan to put some sort of rubber or plastic over top the track area so that way the track could be accessed for repair issues, etc. for flange ways I plan on either putting in some very flexable tubing (that would crush under the trains or putting in a T bar. The problems I have identified so far with my plan are: 1) I may run into cracking issues by weakening the concrete where I lower it down for the track (you may have this same problem). 2)what material to use to make it look like a very large grade crossing -I am thinking a outdoors rubber mat filped upsidedown and cut to fit. 3) I am not sure if the tubing (the 1/4" drilled (not solid) sprinker line) will still be as flexable in winter or next year ( or be flexible enough to not cause derailment issues) 4) T bar/rail laid sideways next to the track -(which is simmilar to what the real RR use in street running) would fill up with garbage & need constant maintaince. If I am going to do this I'll be doing it soon and be posting how I did it, and repost in a year how it held up..... good luck <br /> <br />Also If anyone else has done this or anything similar I'd love to hear about it.
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