QUOTE: Originally posted by selector Jarrell, i was intorduced to EZ-Track by my wife and Mother-in-Law. They purchased me a On30 Christmas Train set that came with EZ-Track. I have found it to be useful and reliable. My pesent layout uses the product, and its electric switches, extensively, and I currently have no issues with it. Mine is placed, not glued, on extruded foam, and then thinly ballasted. It looks fine, if you ask me. Just be careful when mating the ends; the joiners can cause one rail to climb over them instead of into them, so you end up with a bump. As you well know, you are constrained by the preformed (predetermined) curves and lengths of track. It can be a bu**er to get uncoventional track plans to align when you want to 'close the loop'. So, feel free to use it. Just acept that you will almost surely have to use at least one insertion of cut-to-fit- flextrack at one or two points to get everything to mate nicely. I did, and the rest is history.
QUOTE: Originally posted by jacon12 QUOTE: Originally posted by selector Jarrell, i was intorduced to EZ-Track by my wife and Mother-in-Law. They purchased me a On30 Christmas Train set that came with EZ-Track. I have found it to be useful and reliable. My pesent layout uses the product, and its electric switches, extensively, and I currently have no issues with it. Mine is placed, not glued, on extruded foam, and then thinly ballasted. It looks fine, if you ask me. Just be careful when mating the ends; the joiners can cause one rail to climb over them instead of into them, so you end up with a bump. As you well know, you are constrained by the preformed (predetermined) curves and lengths of track. It can be a bu**er to get uncoventional track plans to align when you want to 'close the loop'. So, feel free to use it. Just acept that you will almost surely have to use at least one insertion of cut-to-fit- flextrack at one or two points to get everything to mate nicely. I did, and the rest is history. I didn't realize you could use the 'regular' flex track with it, that's good to know. BTW, I'd love to have an On30 set! One of the best layouts I think I've every seen was an On30 built on a logging theme. It was super! 'Course, some experts put it together but thats beside the point.. [;)] Crandell, as usual, I appreciate your input! Jarrell OH! one other thing! Did you run a buss and feeders and if so, is it easy to do? Jarrell
QUOTE: http://www.railimages.com/gallery/thomasweber will provide you with some photo's of the results ........
QUOTE: Originally posted by siberianmo [2c] on the subject - Seems we both have arrived at that stage in life where the fingers don't work quite the way they used to and the eyesight betrays us now and then. [swg] When I began my rather extensive HO Can-Am layout a couple of years ago, I did so from scratch. Bought new - simply discarded decades of "stuff," including all brass track and turnouts. It came down to a choice between Bachmann's EZ Track and KATO. I chose the former. Both have the grey roadbed built in. That was a plus for me, and apparently for you. With well over 500 sections of this stuff it became apparent to me that the look just was cheesy. So, I ordered a few bizillion containers of ballast, a 55 gallon drum of white glue, and began the tedius chore of ballasting over the manufacturer's roadbed. [yeah] It took time and many frustrating sessions when my eyes and fingers caused me fits. It's all history now and I'm extremely pleased with the results. The rights-of-way look fine to me - and after all, isn't that what counts with this hobby [?] http://www.railimages.com/gallery/thomasweber will provide you with some photo's of the results ........ By the by - if I had it to do over, KATO would be my choice. Why [?] Quality.
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
QUOTE: dthurman I like how you did the snow. Very sharp layout.
QUOTE: jacon12 Wow Tom, you've got a super layout there! Thanks ever so much for the link to the pictures, if I could get it to look half that good I'd be happy! Jarrell