number one dead giveaway

[Tyson Rayles]

I would agree that properly done a handlaid turnout tends to look better than a commercial one. But the track itself when handlaid looks terrible with it's one oversized spike every 6th-7th tie or so and no tie plates. Track that has been soldered to the ties and therefore has no spikes at all looks even more unrealistic. Today's better brands of flextrack in the smaller codes are light years ahead of handlaying IMHO.