Vintage track building parts 50's ?

[hayfield]

Rather than tie up another thread I thought it better to start a separate thread. A question was posed about early track building parts and I have a small collection dating back to the 50's (or earlier) as I had intended to do a bit of retro modelling

 

First up a selection of Peco indvidulay parts

 

 

Clock wise from top left

 

Peco sleepers Type BH/E3

Peco BH chairs brass for soldered construction

Peco running rail chairs

Peco easy fix slide rail chairs

 

The first BH chairs are much the same as the slide rail chairs

 

 

Top is the tied metal running rail base plates, under is the 3' radius frogs (2.75mm tall) type A/3 00 & EM gauge?

 

 

[hayfield]

 

These are W&H plastic sleepers with chairs, code 75 BH flops about in the chairs

 

Below is a Peco spiked point kit

 

All parts are preformed with the exception of the curved stock rail, as the one kit can be used for either right or left handed turnout.

 

Instructions on the rear of the packet

 

 

Instructions how to make a curved or Y turnout

 

 

Or formations with some added notes 

[hayfield]

These are the Peco timbers with the running rail chairs

 

 

Kings Cross Kingsway fiber sleepers

 

 

Bonds of Euston (hard) cast chairs

[hayfield]

Getting to the end of my collection

 

 

Looking at the W&H catalogue these may be the Romford chairs

 

 

These chairs are brass, looks to be milled out of a bar then sliced up.

 

 

Some American code 100 flatbottom part made turnouts, I assume you lay the timbers (ties if US practice), spike the rails to the timbers then un-solder and clean up the rails. Thinking out loud these would save me quite a bit of time with my proposed 0-16.5 layout !!!

 

 

Over to other oldies and their recollections 

 

 

[Wayne Kinney]

Wow, that's really interesting, thanks for posting!

[hayfield]

8 minutes ago, Wayne Kinney said:

Wow, that's really interesting, thanks for posting!

 

No problems, now people moan about filing a bit of rail, sliding a few chairs on and using plastic solvent to stick the rails with chairs on down. Look at what our forebears had to do 

 

 

I forgot this ABC track, not looking too bad for its age

[AndyID]

I had lots of the Peco spiked track and point kits. Some of it had the steel rail. Unfortunately the layout was in a rather damp cellar. The fibre timbers an the steel rail didn't fair too well

[5050]

Here's some relevant pages from the 1960 Peco Catalogue.  I used 'Universal' spiked track with steel rail when I was a lad - still got some of the track bases and odd lengths of rail - but the wiring etc. of the points was beyond me at the time (as was soldering properly) so it all went a bit pear shaped in the end.  I found other interests but, had I persevered for a short while longer, then Streamline would have come on the market and I would probably have been able to manage better.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also have some 'Little Western' EM track bases.  With this system, pairs of small staples are fastened through the pre-punched holes in the sleepers, carefully flattened below, and the rail soldered to them.

 

 

And there is also the Wrenn Double Junction!

 

 

Somewhere I have a GEM Universal point (15" radius) along with various odd items that I will try and dig out in due course.

 

EDIT - no idea why this ended up down here!!  Don't think much of this current method of loading photos, you can't see a preview to check everything's in the right place before posting.

Edited November 20, 2020 by 5050