I am thinking of adding some traction to my layout. I don't want to spend an inordinate amount of money on a model that will pull itself and nothing else when I could use those same funds to procure a new locomotive or maybe several pieces of rolling stock. That said, I need some help with the following: How tight a radius will most common commercial models negotiate? (Bachmann PCC or Brill, Bowser PCC, etc.) What runs well enough to just "turn it on and let it go" in a simple more or less cirular run? What are easy methods to replicate street railway right-of-way? Are Walthers' street trackage inserts any good? Does anyone make templates to use with plain styrene sheets? Thanks, Bob Massie
What are easy methods to replicate street railway right-of-way? i find the easyest way of doing street trackage is to fill over the entire track and road with a filler (we call it polly filler over here in England) get a piece of brass and cut one of the corners off with a tab of about 1.5mm left and use that to scrape away the flange ways using the rail as a guide Does anyone make templates to use with plain styrene sheets? i have done, what i do is get a piece of A4 plain paper and just rub my fingers over it on top of the track so it makes an imprection on it then cut it out with a x-acto and then mark round it on to the styrene, but i found the end results were not as good as the filler mentioned above. ------------------ Matthew wheres all the C636's???? stickymonk.com Matts Photo gallery
