Manufacturing track

[Anonymous]

This is all reinventing the wheel, our club here in Australia owns its own die and produces its own rail and it is terrific. failing that buy the rail from LGB flextrack. This a terrific way to go, I do it all the time and will take a lot of convincing that it is not the best way to go. The versatility and reduced costs are paramount.

Regds Ian

[toenailridgesl]

hand-laying track:
http://www.trainweb.org/toenailridge/story1.html

[Puckdropper]

I think I'm going to look in to making my own track... There's nothing that looks quite as much like wood as wood itself. (Plus, at $10/3 ft section, I can't afford much track at once.)

That's one of the draws of this gauge (referring to the distance between the rails at which all the different scales run.), the ability to use 12 in : 1' tools to create usable items.

[cheese3]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jebouck

http://www.gscalechuffchuff.com/

Thats what i need. Thanks for everyones help[:D]

[RhB_HJ]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Curmudgeon

Channel works GREAT if you aren't going to use track power....
Curves are a little hard.......

Had a local YEARS ago, in "0" gauge, decided to build a "1" gauge outdoors.....had all his buddies come over, cut ties, did the roadbed, spiked rail, ran good enough.
Too cold for him in winter, spring came around, all the ties had expanded or shrunk, gauge all over the place, spikes out, unusable, ripped it out, gave up, then died (really).

TOC

Dave,

For just that reason I built the first turnout years ago, set it out there in wind, snow, rain, blazing hot sun etc. been there for going on four years.
Spikes still in there, gauge holds really well etc. etc. BUT after handlaying enough HOm track to last me for a while, I decided to just build the turnouts, go with flex track (Made in Canada) and do some other stuff instead i.e, write posts on fora. [;)][}:)][:)][:D]

PS did they guy get a t-shirt?? [:o)][:o)]

PPS What do you mean curves are a little hard.... isn't this to be a point to point railroad connected by a tangent??[:o)][:o)]

[Curmudgeon]

Channel works GREAT if you aren't going to use track power....
Curves are a little hard.......

Had a local YEARS ago, in "0" gauge, decided to build a "1" gauge outdoors.....had all his buddies come over, cut ties, did the roadbed, spiked rail, ran good enough.
Too cold for him in winter, spring came around, all the ties had expanded or shrunk, gauge all over the place, spikes out, unusable, ripped it out, gave up, then died (really).

TOC

[RhB_HJ]

QUOTE: Originally posted by troybetts

..........................................................The moral of this story folks is (sometimes)listen to the people that know best.

Troy, [;)]

If we'd all do that there would be little to grumble about![;)][}:)][:)]

BTW one of my fav quotations (by "I don't know who"): "The difference between smart and stupid people is; smart people make mistakes, stupid people make the same mistakes over and over again."

Cheers HJ http://www.rhb-grischun.ca/ http://www.easternmountainmodels.com

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