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Whats Next? My next N adventure CODE 55

Gloucester Road

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Knew this time had to come sooner or later; have become disgruntled with the current layout Gloucester Road. Though not finished i have begun to look else where and want the challenge of something new. The current layout is 7 years old and is starting to show its age, scenery is looking tired, track (points specifically) are starting to fail, not sure i still want a roundy roundy as the boys are getting older and into operating as opposed to watching, and i have a feeling my skills have moved on and i could do a better job. Not to mention some of the great N guage layout on here are providing insperation. So decisions to make.

 

First one was made last night when i started playing around with some track planning software from Atlas. The property that was awarded to me for this potential adventure is 12ft by 3ft. Have been messing around with point to point plans with sweeping curves in the aloted space.

 

Second decision was made today. Code 55.....what else is there, to say it looks amasing!!! Drove 90 minutes round trip to the "local" hobby shop and purchased two points and four pieces of flex track. There is one cautionary tale as the owner said some locos dont run well/derail on code 55, and for this reason atlas has stopped making code 55 but he has plenty of points and flex track, so i better come up with a plan. Once back home and having checked some things off the "honey do list" we started on a test track. Farish and Dapol locos and wagons run (powered by the mysterious hand) and look stunning on the track; first time through the atlas point and my heart sank, the wheels of the locos failed to go through the atlas frogs. oh @@@!!!. After some time thinging and studying out came the Dremmel and we opened up the frog and guide rail a bit and presto!!!

 

So thats where we stand.

 

Might also change to a thread format to, as that format seems to apply to discusion and interacting about potential issues. Anyway off we go.

 

Stephen

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Hello Stephen,

 

the Atlas Code 55 Track is intented for the use with american rolling stock, which got RP25 wheels. I made the same mistake on my first british layout, where I wanted to use Atlas code 55 track. My entire locos stalled at the turnouts. (Dapol 14xx, GraFar 3F and 4F. The Peco and Farish Wagons run well on the Flextrack, but have some problems on the turnouts, The Dapol wagons hit the ties, when running.

When you are using british/continental rolling stock, it is better to use Peco Code 55 tracks.

 

Markus

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Gloucester Road

Thanks for that, will investigate. Unfortuanlly my local does not carry peco code 55 flex track only the points. So in an effort to look at code 55 went with atlas; the only way to get peco 55 flex is online. So...

 

 

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devondynosoar118

I used code 55 peco track on Kbridge and its worked great. I have the same problem with ordering, just takes a bit of planning and putting up with paying postage! Will watch this post with interest.

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