Episode 2: How To Install HO Flextrack
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Hey guys. Like I promised, here is the installing Flextrack video. In this tutorial we install flextrack on our HO Scale CSX Salem Division Shelf Layout. I hope you guys injoy this video. And as always, thanks for watching. If you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment below and I will get back to you as soon as possible. Also, please check out the channel and don't forget to rate and subscribe. Happy Holidays.
Thanks for sharing. In response to so many negative comments, I have to say this should be more correctly named "One way to lay flex track" or "How I laid my yard tracks". I know you're not recommending this to everyone, nor saying this is the only way. You did this well for your circumstances. Thanks again for opening up your world to us.
I know you obviously have a preference for Liquid Nails but I myself would use Silicone Adhesive. It retains a sound dampening quality and if you ever move, you can take up your track and use again. I myself hand-lay my track so I just use little Elmer's Wood glue or the equivalent. If I do use flex track, I install Micro Engineering and this track is too expensive to just throw away. Thank you for your video.
@cutlassburnin
Mainlines should be raised using some sort of roadbed (That is prototypical), sidings and shortlines however the track roadbed has usually sank to ground level in that case no roadbed would be more prototypical. I have been model railroading for close to 30 years . thumbs up to tallengineer2320
Thanks for the video, I have just ordered 75 ft of flexitrack
Using a long straight edge after you laid down that flex length would have insured an almost perfect aligned track.
When i layed mine i just drew out the template layed down some roadbed cork in the plan of the track and i used liquid nails for that but for the track i just put pva on the cork so that i can get it up if i need to
Damn, either you didn't show using a straight edge on the track or you have a good nack for laying it straight free hand. I don't blame you for not using cork. I won't use it but have to on the club modules but at home I only use the foam road bed b/c it's alot easier to work with but I like to use it on the main so I hve options on track heigth in various places and is more forgiving on elivated curves. Good work!
nice video!..and Happy Holidays to U too
why do people use glue it ruins the foam cork or maby even the table. I use nails and i move it around all the time its not that hard to take a nail out of the ties.
@trainguy1975 THanks for the comment. The layout is dcc. I just started working on the layout again but I think I can probably be able to post a video about wiring soon. . As of right now, I am using a temporary wiring setup so i can run trains, but when i put the wires in permanently ill make a video.
As a thought.. Selectional track can be used when ever a short (9" or less) section of track is needed..You end up with the same amount of rail joints
@Noah12278 The strait tracks are Atlas Code 83 Flextracks. I purchased them in a bulk pack so Im uncertain about the price for the flextrack. The switches are also Atlas Code 83 #6 Turnouts and they cost around $17.00 each depending on the vendor you get them from. Hope this helped and thanks for the comment.
@schul4 Thanks for the advice but the track will be covered with dirt and such so you will not see the glue. We have used glue on previous layouts and it has worked just fine. Also, this is the way the staff from Model Railroader Magazine lays their track.
@trainguy1975 No it is permanent since it would tear up the foam. If you were to use less liquid nails you might be able to pull it up, but I would plan on it being permanent.
Nice looking work there. Liquid Nails. I knew it was good for household work but model railroads, greatness!
nice videos it has helped me alot with laying track was just wondering when u will post the video on wiring did u use dcc thanks for posting
Very good instruction. I'm surprise you did not use a roadbed.
first time i heard of this--glue the track down, no roadbed? I guess its a permanent part of the layout and will not be moved. I'm more of the flexibility of making a layout thats modular and you can take sections down with no problem. I think the nails would be better even in the yard sections.
I realize this is an old video, as I type this in November 2019. Over the years I have started, and sadly had to abandon layout projects due to household moves. My latest endeavor was going along well, (until I moved to California) but my point here is?
I really wish, back in 2010, I had thought of using glue instead of track nails. Would have made my life easier, with less cussing. Hah!
Back then I used pre-cut Homasote for roadbed (1/2 inch ply for sub-roadbed). Today, next time....if Homasote is available, going that way...but cork works fine, and less expensive. No basements in California, though, and that's a bummer....
I could see using this method for secondary trackage ( yards,sideings and passing sideings). But for mainline no way, where is the roadbed?.
@4202EJW Yes it would be, but if you are using flex track make sure your rails stay the right distance apart with an NMRA guage.
What is the trick for laying arrow straight flex track? I have three sections which are 8 feet long and double mainlined. I want them arrow straight. . .
@mrmartyman7 Well, first off, thanks for your comment.... I never said this was my idea. I have used it in the past and it worked out good for me. I'm sorry liquid nails gives you headaches but this is the way I do things. If you think this advise is crap you do not have to watch this video, and you don't have to waste your time continuing to spam this video with negative remarks.
So liquid nails works well as an adhesive on foam?
Great video brother!
thanks for responding i do have another question since u r using liquid nails to hold the track down if later on u decide to change track is it easy to get up and reuse the track or once its glued down its done thanks again
OMG, I'm sorry, I don't want to be "that guy" but please do not do it this way. One, all track should have some type of roadbed. Mainline will always sit a bit higher than yard or industry track roadbed, but all track in use has roadbed. The sub roadbed should be Homosot, Sheetrock, or Foam board, Homosot and Foam board are my first choices. Once a roadbed has been laid, secure your track using track nails, NOT GLUE of any type. If you want or need to make changes in the future it will be twice as hard if you had used glue, and a lot more costly. Also, before laying any track prep it first. Track should be spray painted using red/brown primer, after it dry's use a bright boy or fine sand paper atop the rail to give its shine back and give you good contact. This will make your track look real. Also spray the roadbed before installing with grey stone color spray paint, it allows you to use less ballast later that could foul your switches. Oh, to secure roadbed use Elmer's white, when it dry's it will do so clear. I've been doing model railroading for 35 years, what I'm suggesting will give you the best results. Finally, buy a NMRA track standards gauge and use it as you install. Anyone telling you how to install track and you don't see them using one, that should be your first warning. Investing in a Dremel will be the one thing that make track installing simple. Ok, sorry, just needed to clear that up.
Why would I listen to the advice of some know-it-all clown who can't even spell "Homasote?"
Why didn't you place roadbed?
What happened to the roadbed? There isn't one.
does flex track have a eletrical connector track or do i have to solder some wire to the track?
@OmegaDeus8467 Thank you. I wanted the track to be built into the ground on some points on the layout. That is why I did not use roadbed.
You have to solder wore to the track.
what about cork roadbed
Union Pacific Fan typically not needed when foam is the layout directly underneath the track. This looks like a rail yard they are building and typically most don't use track bedding in rail yards. Not really sure though
connect rail first connect before you spread the glue around
Where do you get those types of tracks? Whats the price?
Is it piko flex track
Honestly, I would have to say the track laying video is very truncated. I hope no one new to the hobby ends up having to tear out and waste a bunch of track and labor due to things not mentioned in this video. Model railroading is not easy, nor is it cheap. One must rethink, research, and rethink research again before laying track or else nine times out of ten YOU WILL REGRET WHAT YOU DID.
This is actually really crappy advice WOW
MODEL RAILROADER MAGAZINE do you own stock in liquid nails?
liquid nails as far as I'm concerned has no place in model rail roading .
liquid nails is messy , smells terrible (gives me a headache)
if you ever want to change anything use a dremel tool cut out the section and rip out the section to be changed throw away the track and switches as they will be caked with rock hard glue, by then you may want to rethink how you want to lay flex track.
If you want super straight track that is up to you but when it comes to realism there really is no such thing as an arrow straight track on a prototype RR
@David curtis the same reason they have derailments
@David curtis I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you..
Tracks get worn, they get bent from constant use, ground shift, weather change.. even though they spend millions laying them down.. they still get warped and cause derailments..
They spend millions on roads too, how many have you been on that stay perfect for years
@David curtis they don't. I have no idea where you are getting that from
@Primal67060 Thanks for the comment.
@ModelRailroadTV
Sorry but your advice is bad regardless who does it this way.
I down voted because I could not see your hands during most critical connections.
The intro music is awful why so aggressive and loud