I've been playing around this week with my first shipment of the brand new Tomalco Code 70 standard gauge flex track, just received from Larry Morton (owner of Tomalco). It is very nice stuff. Code 70 is exactly the correct height to replicate 70- to 75-pound-per-yard rail in S-scale, so those of us who are struggling to model the late 19th or early 20th century steam era in S finally have some excellent track, without having to hand-lay everything.
The new Tomalco Code 70 flex track has very nice tie and spikehead detail, and is stiff enough to hold a radius by itself after being bent to a curve, which makes it easy to lay. Trucks equipped with NWSL Code 88 semi-finescale wheels roll over the track and cast plastic spikeheads with no problems, as would be expected. But I was pleased and a bit surprised to find that even some old Ace archbar trucks, still equipped with their stock plastic wheels with oversize flanges, also performed perfectly over the track, without the flanges hitting the spikeheads. Larry has been very gracious and patient in answering all the questions I have emailed him about his new code 70 products. I also have some of the first soon-to-be-released Code 70 #6 turnouts on order from Tomalco, and after seeing how nice the new flex track came out, I am eagerly looking forward to receiving the matching turnouts. I'll try to post a brief report once I have been able to test them out. Ron Stanulevich The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
