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I'm modeling a mine face that displays a push/manual mine car, 18" guage, to bring ore out of the mine to a loading platform where it's dumped into an ore car on the track below. The cars will not be operational, but will be fixed on the loading platform in various positions. I would, however, like to model the tracks into and out of the mine face with some degree of realism. Typically, these tracks are layed between planks or embedded in hard surface like asphalt or cement. This model the track will be laid on the loading platform and will use planking between the tracks and down each side. Are there any suggestions for modeling an 18" gauge track in HO scale? So far, I've tried using 'Z' scale track and that's a bit to large. I'm toying with the idea of using some copper wire in a suitable wire guage, however, I have no clue how I'm going to get 2 pieces of copper wire layed parallel and shaped appropriately.
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