Customtrax switches (turnouts)? Hmmm. Tell me more.
Andre Ming ----- Original Message ----- From: John Albee To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 11:25 AM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: Four Stages of Track Theory It is MicroEngineering code 100 and 83 flex for me and fabulous Customtrax turnouts. They are superb! Sent from my iPhone On Jun 23, 2012, at 8:59 AM, "Andre Ming" <[email protected]> wrote: Dave Heine said: > It's said there are four stages of track laying in a model railroaders life: > > 1 - Snap-track > > 2 - Flextrack > > 3 - Handlaid > > 4 - Flextrack I came full circle back to #4. I handlaid track on three different layouts, totaling about 1000' feet of track. On my first one, flex in HO in code 70 wasn't available, so it was handlay or use code 100, which simply wasn't an acceptable option to me at the time. The second one was by choice to get that "branchline" look. Don't know why I did the third one. (Which point was driven home on the final 20' of mainline when I used up some code 70 flex I had from another project. After laying it down and seeing the nice results, I looked at the rest of the layout and asked myself "WHY did I handlay this monster???".) Andre Ming =
