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Re: Track Bed Ideas
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Date: 
Mon, 17 Jun 2002 00:14:03 GMT
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John Eric Voltin wrote:
> How do you handle curved track?  I don't believe that such a rectangular
> arrangement will work with curved track.  I considered using tiles, but a
> large supply of gray tiles would be hard to get.  Any thoughts?

this fuzzy pic may help explain...

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=115442

use a mixture of plates and tiles.  i was amazed how many plates you can
actually use since the track does not cover the stud part of the 1x1
plate.  i think there are six 1x2 tiles and 3 2x2 tiles under that one
curved section.  you could probably do it with less though.

-chris



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Thanks for the information. I will have to do some experimenting. - John Eric "Christopher Tracey" <ctracey@enviroweb.org> wrote in message news:3D0D29CB.403050...web.org... (...) rectangular (...) a (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains)

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How do you handle curved track? I don't believe that such a rectangular arrangement will work with curved track. I considered using tiles, but a large supply of gray tiles would be hard to get. Any thoughts? - John Eric "Christopher Tracey" (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jun-02, to lugnet.trains)

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