Trains.com

Subscriber & Member Login

Login, or register today to interact in our online community, comment on articles, receive our newsletter, manage your account online and more!

Anybody ever heard of "Top" track?

742 views
2 replies
1 rating 2 rating 3 rating 4 rating 5 rating
  • Member since
    April 2008
  • From: Northern VA
  • 3,050 posts
Anybody ever heard of "Top" track?
Posted by jwhitten on Sunday, September 25, 2011 3:04 PM

 

Howdy,

I bought some used HO scale code 70 flex track a while back and was looking at some the other night and it's stamped on the bottom "TOP Track". I've never heard of it before or seen any sort of reference to it. It's pretty well detailed, not quite as nice as Central Valley tie strips, but much better than Atlas, with approximately in-scale ties, spikes (spike heads), tie plates and wood grain in the ties. The ties themselves are hollowed out underneath, not solid and look to be styrene, and are colored not quite black and not quite brown, but somewhere in between, kind of a dark, dusky blackish-gray-brown sort of color. The ties look to have "branch line" type spacing to them.

Has anybody heard of this brand before and know any more about it?

 

John

Modeling the South Pennsylvania Railroad ("The Hilltop Route") in the late 50's
  • Member since
    September 2002
  • From: California & Maine
  • 3,848 posts
Posted by andrechapelon on Sunday, September 25, 2011 3:48 PM
It's really kind of hard to support your local hobby shop when the nearest hobby shop that's worth the name is a 150 mile roundtrip.
  • Member since
    April 2008
  • From: Northern VA
  • 3,050 posts
Posted by jwhitten on Sunday, September 25, 2011 5:57 PM

andrechapelon

 

Ah! Thank you sir.

 

John

Modeling the South Pennsylvania Railroad ("The Hilltop Route") in the late 50's

Subscriber & Member Login

Login, or register today to interact in our online community, comment on articles, receive our newsletter, manage your account online and more!

Users Online

There are no community member online

Search the Community

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Model Railroader Newsletter See all
Sign up for our FREE e-newsletter and get model railroad news in your inbox!