04-25-2014, 06:48 AM
@Tyson: I call them railbars because Detail West call them that way. I remember seeing joint bars too, even fish plates (but maybe that was a misused term).
@Charlie: I installed railbars on 5 feets of track already. Looks quite good. The product is Detail West #933, for Code 83. I think they have some for Code 70. The Code 83 product would probably work fine on Code 100 too. You're right, the staggering is quite random! I used a few MMA pictures I took last year on a stretch of track with 39' rail as reference. I'll try to finish installing them this afternoon and will take pictures. Hope to paint the track during the rainy weekend.
What I found is that you definitely CAN install railbars inside the rails with having problems with wheel. On a few place, the bars were a little bit thicker and I did had some issue of bumping wheels. I easily trimmed the glued railbars using an curved X-acto blade. The stuff removed is about 0.01", very marginal as you can see. According to some pictures over the internet, I'm not the only one to have put railbars on each side of the rail, like the prototype. I'll continue gluing them this afternoon and will take a few pictures. However, this is extremely time consuming, even if gluing process is quite easy.
Maybe I'll start a thread about this small switching layout if there's interest. Progress and track plan can be found at http://theendofsteel.blogspot.ca.
Matt
@Charlie: I installed railbars on 5 feets of track already. Looks quite good. The product is Detail West #933, for Code 83. I think they have some for Code 70. The Code 83 product would probably work fine on Code 100 too. You're right, the staggering is quite random! I used a few MMA pictures I took last year on a stretch of track with 39' rail as reference. I'll try to finish installing them this afternoon and will take pictures. Hope to paint the track during the rainy weekend.
What I found is that you definitely CAN install railbars inside the rails with having problems with wheel. On a few place, the bars were a little bit thicker and I did had some issue of bumping wheels. I easily trimmed the glued railbars using an curved X-acto blade. The stuff removed is about 0.01", very marginal as you can see. According to some pictures over the internet, I'm not the only one to have put railbars on each side of the rail, like the prototype. I'll continue gluing them this afternoon and will take a few pictures. However, this is extremely time consuming, even if gluing process is quite easy.
Maybe I'll start a thread about this small switching layout if there's interest. Progress and track plan can be found at http://theendofsteel.blogspot.ca.
Matt
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