Being the owner and builder of a portable track that gets used a lot, I thot I could share some of my experiences. After the fires and the burning demise of the old green track of the QM we were faced with a rebuild for the QM show and to not let live steam die there. The track that I designed is made of steel and expanded metal. Many of you have run on it and altho it has it's quirks it is a good and light weight system. When it was built many people from the railroad community came and helped and we built in three weekends. Most of the people involved had no idea of how to work metal and only two of us could weld. With wire feed welders so readily available, it really does not take much to make a good weld on light metal these days. It is actually a very simple design and has held up well for two years now and quite a few events. And it is light, my wife, Jackie, can even carry sections around. The build of the track is well chronologized in the archives on MLS and the this is the link to the thread: http://mylargescale.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=21310 Seems like all the contruction pictures are still intact and there are five pages of them. I can say that the track has served us all well and we have had a great time steaming with all of our friends. Happy to answer any questions about this. Bob
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