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Check rails


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Got the chance to do some more trackwork on Fourgig, this time it's the checkrails for the inset trackwork around and in the goods shed.

 

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Not much rail left now, just got to add the flares for the checkrails on the adjoining board and that's the track done - scenery can start in earnest :)

 

(once the inset track is sprayed black)

 

UPDATE:

 

flares added to the ends of the checkrails leading to the engine shed. Note Isebrook sat over the illuminated pit - Black Cat Tech universal lighting strips were used to add the lighting as they don't (obviously) do an O gauge version specifically for the sclescenes kit ;)

 

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I also spotted that I'd caught the rail ends at some point and broke the solder joints on one rail. So they were resoldered using 188 deg solder for added strength and a new sleeper added to reinforce the track at baseboard edge.

 

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The Chris Nevard method - will ballast shallow with sand or somesuch then press DAS clay into the ballasting

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Some advice I would give is to make sure that check rails that are really holding back soil are actually rather narrower (so the check rail gap is wider) than either scale or your gauge tolerances would demand.

 

This is because they add a lot of drag to the wheel flange and reduce the pulling power of your loco a lot. This may nto be relevent on something fairly small as you have here, but is relevent on anything larger. Guess how I know that........!!

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