I don't think you can get there from here. Looks like you might have to switch to N scale.http://www.katousa.com/images/unitrack/n-ctground2.jpg
alloboard wrote:I am modeling a high speed rail line. Where can can I buy HO scale concrete track that is not flexible? I hate flexible track.
What have you got against flexible track?
Once it's been glued down, it's great, and it gives you freedom to create your own track plan without the restriction of pre-made radii. Because the sections are much longer, you end up with fewer rail joiners, which improves electrical performance. The flexibility helps avoid track kinks when the sectional track pieces just don't quite fit together, too.
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Alloboard:
You may have to modify existing "black tie" track by painting it gray. The ties won't have the curved shape of the concrete sleepers, but you could make a reasonable facimile for your high-speed line.
Courage8 wrote: Alloboard: You may have to modify existing "black tie" track by painting it gray. The ties won't have the curved shape of the concrete sleepers, but you could make a reasonable facimile for your high-speed line.
'Way back when, a manufacturer which shall remain nameless tried the equivalent, substituting grey-white plastic for the black in the fabricating process. The result looked like whitewashed wooden ties (grain pattern and all.) The next run, manufactured using new molds with the appropriate contour, was a HUGE improvement.
To stiffen straight flex, it could be fastened to a thin strip of black or dark grey styrene cut to tie-end width, glued up with the tie ends held straight in contact with a good straightedge. (A 4-foot carpenter's level would be my tool of choice.) Curves could be made, albiet with somewhat greater difficulty, by gluing the flex to styrene arcs cut out to the appropriate geometry. The one place where flex track shines, forming spiral easements, can also be done on solid substrate. All it would take would be cutting out a template after doing the basic drawing.
I use a variant of this theme - my tie-width track templates get glued to the roadbed first (with grey latex caulk.) Then I lay the flex on them, secure in the knowledge that I can adjust for proper position at every tie end, not just at the track nail holes. Once again, the flex track to template adhesive is grey latex caulk.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - concrete-tie flex, handlaid specialwork)
Jay
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