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Badly laid track as a shortline?
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by AltonFan</i> <br /><br />There was an article in <i>Railroad Model Craftsman</i>, I want to say sometime in the 1980s, in which an author deliberately kinked his handlaid track to resemble a run-down branch line. He had diagrams of what and wouldn't work. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />There was another article about 2000 or 2001 ish in the same magazine. (It has to be that, becasue I remeber reading it this one teachers room. In high school. I just can't remember which of the three classes it was I had with him) But this guy went the whole way. He discussed how to take stock Micro Engineering flex track. and make it look look half gone. He cut out tie spacers from the tie strips, Made ties crooked, removed ties. removed whole sections of ties so the rail could be laid across ties that he made to look half disintigrated and rotted. (Involved some trick with alohol based die and vinigar. I can't remember exactly) All the classic halmarks that you would need for a rusting and decrepid shortline right of way. Fortunatly for the time being, I am only planning to model lines some what more prosperoous. (Though I might do that to some sidings on the logging line that I will have interchaning with my class one. [prividing there is room for it.]) The article stated there was no reason this couldn't be used with any other brand of flex track. Just that Micro Engineering makes HO gauge track in the smaller codes that make this sort of run down affair look more natural. <br /> <br />Just my humble musings on the topic.
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