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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by bazango Oh guys. Please help me. I think that the click-clack of the wheels hitting the track joints is one of the things I am modeling. That is all lost with flex-trak. Am I wrong? I have spent a great deal of money, drilled hundreds of rail-joiners to run solder into joints where it won't be seen, just to preserve the breaks in the track. Am I alone? It would be so much easier to finish my layout (around my entire basement) with flex-trak. But prototype railroads don't have 100-yard jointless sections! Am I being radical? Someone please give me a reference point! Thanks for any help, SB [/quote] I thought about the same thing on the realistic clickity clack on the rails. My first layout had some flex track on it & what I did to get the realistic sound was use my dremel tool with a cutting disc. You have to take it slow & touch the rail lightly with the disc & try to make very small nicks in the rail to get the sound. Run a car across the nick until you are satisfied with the tone of the joint. Try not to make the nick too wide, It does take a while to do it right but the outcome can be very rewarding. I have screwed up some rail at times, But live & learn.
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