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Re: ballast
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:08:15 GMT
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Here's possibly another good (IMO) reason for ballasting: using tiles and
occasional 1x1's, you should be able to fasten down curve tracks. Even on
"plywood and baseplates" setups.
Hmm, I'll have to play around with this...
Steve
In lugnet.trains, Christopher Tracey wrote:
> A few weeks ago I had this idea for a solution to a problem that had been bothering me for a while. Whenever I see a green baseplate between the ties
> of the train track, it looks really wierd to me. I seen the GMLTC pics where they use a combination of various plates to acheive a ballast effect. I
> thought this was good but I never had enough spare plates to accomplish something like that.
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> Then I thought about the mosiac kit. My kit arrived last week.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2934
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> The track is raised up one plate height mainly using dirty, miscolored and broken plates. 1x1 plates in light and medium gray are randomly arranged
> around and between the track. I didn't use the dark gray pieces because they match the track. Two 90-piece bags will cover about 2.2 track sections.
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> -chris
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> ps. sorry for the blurry pics, no enough light in the basement.
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| (...) Check out Matt's Train Depot for more ideas on how to do this. The 2x2 turntables work quite well, the GMLTC uses them whenever possible. (URL) GMLTC (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| A few weeks ago I had this idea for a solution to a problem that had been bothering me for a while. Whenever I see a green baseplate between the ties of the train track, it looks really wierd to me. I seen the GMLTC pics where they use a combination (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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