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Attaching/laying track to wood
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ondrek
Member since
February 2004
From: Vermont
540 posts
Attaching/laying track to wood
Posted by
ondrek
on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 9:27 AM
Ok, I have been putting off my garden layout way way too long. and now that its now winter and the snow is out on the ground, I really want to build it (of course). I can either wait till the spring (may) or i can start now. I know many people have laid their track down on wood. I am thinking of this too. my concerns are the following:
1. expansion and contraction of the track due to temp changes
2. shifting due to frost heaving
3. balast runoff from wood roadbed due to rain
Anyone want to give me some pointers on this? I could start making sections of the layout in the basement attaching the track to sections of preasure treated wood that would then be laid down in the spring, or i can just wait, and lay the track down on a roadbed of crusher fines and let the track float like the store does in the next town.
thanks
Kevin
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ondrek
Member since
February 2004
From: Vermont
540 posts
Posted by
ondrek
on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 9:39 AM
Sorry-
Dont reply to this thread, i put it in the wrong forum...I am positng it in the layout building forum...
I wasnt looking where i was when i started the question.
kevin
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Anonymous
Member since
April 2003
305,205 posts
Posted by
Anonymous
on Friday, December 31, 2004 8:28 PM
Welll I'm going too whether you like it or not. Don't do it mate don't do it. Get yourself together and start again
Rgds ian
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