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I'm on 'Easy Street' !

Red Devil

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As was mentioned before I'd ordered some 'Easy Street' girder rail for the proposed extension to'Grime Street', it's produced in the US and available from http://www.proto87.c...tcar-track.html (usual disclaimer)

 

So what do you get?

 

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Well this is a twin left hand points module, as you can see you also need the plain and curved track sections to complete a working point, so I duly ordered some! Also shown is one of the downloadable drawings available on the Proto 87 website, these are available in quite a few figuarations right up to a 'grand junction' crossing and in various formats (oo/ho, proto87 etc). These I found very handy as you can play around with them to your hearts content.

 

So, time to do some track laying, armed with tweezers, super glue gel and bits of wire (used as joiners) this was the result.

 

I've literally built this road section on a plank, 18mmx144 as I had it to hand and wanted a soild base, which I'll let into a baseboard unit when finished, the points on the trailing crossover will be sprung as this is going to be the line terminus, so little in the way of operational flexibility is required.

 

Overall, very happy so far, need to do some soldering and get it wired up to check for any faults, but it's lived up to its' name so far and been very easy and user friendly, I have a feeling that 'Grime Street' will be being relaid in the near future.

 

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65243

This stuff looks interesting. Are the parts pre-sized for 16.5mm gauge, or is there some flexibility?

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Red Devil
This stuff looks interesting. Are the parts pre-sized for 16.5mm gauge, or is there some flexibility?

 

No, everything can be cut to size, I've noticed that there are P4 drawings in the download areas, so the only parts pre formed are the points sections as shown in the first pic. If anything it may even be easier in P4 rather than HO/OO as in that form the whels run on their flanges rather than their treads, for embedded rail in most 4mm gauges this looks very promising.

 

Don't know if you've seen this but it looks interesting http://www.proto87.com/ho-exhibition-layout.html. I'm notcertain on the terminology but it looks like 'railway' type points are also available.

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xkopite

Hi Mark,

Can you suggest what rail I should purchase for a static horse tram oo gauge diorama, code 55, 70 etc. I would be obliged for any help please.. Regards Dave H.

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Red Devil

Hi Mark,

Can you suggest what rail I should purchase for a static horse tram oo gauge diorama, code 55, 70 etc. I would be obliged for any help please.. Regards Dave H.

Depends....purely for a static diorama I'd probably say some of the above....it does look well and could just be glued to the baseboard, if using 'ready to run track' I'd just say some code 75 and covered in scribed plaster/tile grout. Ask 50 tram modellers about track and you'll probably get 50 answers though....so those are just my personal choices.

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