Hello All,
I am looking for a little advice. I had my CO-OP at work use his 3D printer to print me a trestle bridge for my layout. I had originally planned to cut out the foam and cork roadbed underneath the bridge. However i got working on my plan last night and it just didnt look good.
So i removed the section of track and i guess will be hand laying the rails on top of the bridge. What is the best way to secure the rails to the plastic ties on the new bridge? Can i just use superglue? will this hold? This is part of the mainline so it will be used often. I have two jigs to keep the rails in gauge if superglue will hold the rails to the bridge.
Thanks in advance for the opinions
If you can employ a retarder in the CA glue, it would be helpful so that you can ensure the proper gauge of the rails along the length of the decking. Otherwise, contact cement should work just fine...a thin bead of it using a sharp toothpick.
I made bridge track by carefully removing the ties from flex track, cutting out the spacers in the plastic and carefully slipping the ties back on. That way I still had the track perfectly in gauge.
This is an Atlas bridge with Code 100 track:
Here is Code 100 over a very short and low trestle:
This is the same bridge afer adding guard rails:
Finally, a pair of trestles. These are Code 83.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
It sounds like the ties are part of the 3-D If so, slipping new rails in probably isn't an option
David Popp used N-scale track and CA to make guard rails in this video. I assume the main rails would work the same way. You may need a subscription to MRVP
http://nypost.com/2017/04/25/man-tries-to-shoot-cigarette-from-between-a-womans-fingers-misses-in-worst-way/
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley