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Don't bother with the rail joiners. They are huge and to my eye are quite noticeable. I have used the crimping method to join different codes . Works quite well if you tweak it a bit. The idea is to put a rail joiner on the code 100 rail and crimp the other end flat. The code 83 will sit on that part an be soldered in. I find I have to grind a little off of the bottom of the 83 rail to get a smooth fit. Another method I like is to shim the smaller track with styrene to match the height of the taller code. I butt the rails against each other and carefully spike the smaller in place. I then solder with no rail joiner. works well for sidings and yard tracks. I would get switches of the same code as the mainline track. You will be making a lot of work for yourself switching rail size three times at every turnout. BTW I use Atlas N scale joiners for code 83 track, they look a lot better and will still fit over the rail ends....
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