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I have had a good laugh with some of my friends over this "noise" issue. You see they too, like some here, have never used a road bed at all. They buy spruce plywood as it takes spikes beautifully, and cut the plywood, kind of like cookie cutter style, on L girders so that the plywood has rounded shoulders, then they lay track directly to the spruce plywood and ballast. I have been running layouts for years at their homes and have yet to hear the "noise" issue that so many seemed concerned about. <br /> <br />In helixes noise, if you can encourage it, is good thing I have discovered. I haven't run any trains on my new layout yet (1/3 of the track has been laid) but I used sheet MDF with AMI road bed for my N scale track - I don't expect any problems.
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