I recently visited a layout and the guy had the track inbedded in the street, this track had the rail and an opposing metal flange which created a space for the wheel flange to go he said it was a trolly track I've been looking and can't find it anywhere. Has anyone heard of this? What was also unique was that for the turnout it used only a single point toroute the wheel set.
I have found some articles in Model railroader Building city scenery that may help, it was written by John Pryke. Dave
Google customtraxx. That is where I bought my in-street rail.
Guy
see stuff at: the Willoughby Line Site
About 15 years ago my home town repaved a number of main streets. A long stretch of Broadway had a thin layer of asphalt over brick. Imbedded in the brick was still some of the old trolley line, with the flanged rail. There was a sort of inner flange cast as part of the rail that formed a kind of trough for inside the track, possibly to keep roadway materials such as asphalt and concrete from flowing against the rail head rather than to function as a guard rail.
Years ago, this type of track was discussed in an old sister publication of MR called Model Trains. They suggested modeling this kind of rail by something like soldering the head of code70 rail against the web of code 100. Doesn't sound like fun, either the fabrication or hand laying what sounds like a very rigid rail. I seem to recall a basement supplier made something like this available maybe 20-25 yeaars ago for a short time. I also think Mantua had a simulation of this in a line of track sometime in the early-mid 1960s that had their brand of sectional track imbedded in a plastic street section that was extruded to simulate this type of rail
The proper name for the 'rail with a built-in flangeway' is Girder Rail. I know it is manufactured, but I have never felt a need for it so I have no idea where to find it.
An alternative to soldering Code 70 rail sideways to code 100 rail would be to use styrene T-section in place of the code 70 rail. Plastruct probably has a suitable section of appropriate size.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
I've made my street tracks with plaster, gypsum.
I've made a tool:
And here's the How To.
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Ican see how the ties are covered but how would you deal with a switch?
techmikeIcan see how the ties are covered but how would you deal with a switch?
just like with track:
At the points you must fill the plaster carefully. If it's dry you can wiht a pointed knife scrape the plaster to make room for the points.
I omit the throw bar, like you see, I've covered the throwbar with plates (Evergreen) to simulate steel plates.
I see. When I looked at the original pictures you included I didn't enlarge them and didn't notice the rails are above the street height. I'm looking to have the tracks inbedded in the street like a trolley track. I've found two so far from the forum, easy street system and ORR street railway track the Orr looks better for trains the easystreet more for trolleys the flangeway is shallow and wheels would be riding on flanges. Still looking for suggestions.