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Leon, I'll give your suggestion a try. You're right of course about modifying, etc. but I'm a little concerned about the level of precision that will be required in cutting some foam to match. By the way, I model (mostly) the steam-to-diesel transition era, so for better or worse I don't have any 85' flats. I have some 80' passenger cars but they do fine. Its my long-wheel-base steamers ((2-10-0, 4-8-4, 4-8-2, 2-10-2) that are derailing. <br /> <br />Planning a layout always seems to involve some less-than-optimal choices. There are a couple points where I simply cannot stick to my preferred large-radius curves and have straight track at the vertical transition points. <br /> <br />J1love, I've used the cookie cutter before and I want to try a different approach. FIrst reason is that its actually rther difficult to attain a truly uniform or smooth grade by cookie-cutting. Second reason is that I'm trying to get away from the very noisy running created by attaching track to playwood. Third reason is that I have two situations where I have a bridge right at the top of the grade, so the cookie cutter won't solve the vertical-kink problem. Maybe the only solution is to re-work the plan so I hve don't ahve this situation, but I've reached a point where, as they say, that will "change everything"!
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