As others have said, there are a good number of folks who make and sell "flex track". I started with a mix of LGB, Aristo, and (I forgot the brand). All from my local hobby shop. After about six months the LGB had developed a patina that my late wife said "look real", so a large quantity was ordered (from LHS) and the other brands were pulled out, sliced up, painted and used as freight. I soldered two sections together, then used splt jaw rail clamps to join the sections. Let the running ends of the rails stagger, this staggers the joints and helps maintain proper rail spacing and alignment. I would suggest getting a small amount of each brand of rail and watch how it ages then make your bulk purchases.
Tom Trigg
I used 6 foot long flex track for my railroad back in early 2008. Since I was using tight radius (3 feet or 6 feet in diameter) I soldered the rails together so that I could minimize kinks in the curves when two 6 foot sections came together. My wife and I carried three 6 foot soldered sections to the roadbed for installation - it was tricky but we managed even on the curves. I still had some problems where sections would meet up and I had to tinker with these areas by either inserting gauge spacers between the rails or by drilling holes thought the rails and using a nylon cable tie to draw the rails together into gauge. If I had it to do all over again I would probably use sectional track on curves (for 6 foot diameter curves) and just use the flex track on the straight or almost straight sections. By the way I used one of the GR project railroad series to guide me in laying my track and attaching it to buried PVC/plastic conduit piping anchored with 1 1/2 foot long rebar sections using nylon cable ties to attache the piping to the rebar. I then ballasted the track. I live in coastal SC near Hilton Head Island so we do not have any frost or other weather conditions that can mess with your track. The other option would be to mount the flex track on curves on buried pressure treated lumber and then you can more firmly anchor the track to keep it in gauge using exterior screws or nails or perhaps construction adhesive. Hope this helps.
My recommendation would be Sunset Valley Railroad. Great place to deal with, competitive pricing, quality stuff. I have their 45mm brass code 250 track and switches
LGB/USA/Aristo track is code 332, which is quite heavy and makes your trains look toylike. Code 250 track Llagas/Micro Engineering/SVRR/AML make it. Being smaller rail it is cheaper and your trains look MUCH better on it. Get a strip of each, sit your train on it and then the decision is pretty obvious. Was to me about 18 years ago. I have SVRR and it has held up well.
Jerry
web site:
http://thescrr.com/
And you need a rail bender!!!
train_li_usa.com has many different tie options as well as flex rail and the bender.
They advertise in Garden railways.
Ties are made in the USA and come in black, brown, green, red, blue white, pink (Train babe), plus they have plastic display rail.
Any G gauge track can be made to flex if the price is right when you get it.
and yes, AML has good prices on their sales now.
Is it REAL? or Just 1:29 scale?
Long live Outdoor Model Railroading.
Hello,
Accucraft E-Store has aluminum flex track in 6 ft sections. Also it and other track was on sale the other day, probably still is.
Wayne
I would recomend LGB But do not try to make curves less than R3 and always fix track as you go along, you can try ebay for fixed track at good prices plus there maybe some flex for sale. Hope this helps
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Where Can I buy G Scale flex track And What company makes the flex track for g scale?
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