Re: Armored trains [TANKS]

[Rick v100 <rickv100-at-yahoo.com>]

This is similar to timber rails they use to use in
logging for Shay locomotives. 

Rick 



--- OdysseySlipways-at-aol.com wrote:

> Your making it too complicated trying to set up real
> trail rails. If you want 
> to use some sort of rails, why not take some 1/4"
> ply wood just wide enough 
> for scale rail and ties width as the road bed.
> 
> take some fur striping and use it as the rails,
> running it down the boards 
> and then use some smaller pieces for the ties,
> tacking them to the outside edges 
> of the rail so it looks like rail. when you paint
> it, you can always paint in 
> the ties between the rails for the illusion of
> competed tracks
> 
> then when you build your train, have it use
> lawnmower wheels or something so 
> you can power a car or two but the wheels would set
> down, between the fur 
> strip train tracks. this would help eliminate the
> need of trying to make train 
> wheels with flanges, and it would also help keep the
> cost down for making trail 
> tracks. you could make sections of track in 2', 4'
> and 8' lengths and then have 
> sectioned curves as well. you could drill out the
> ends of the rails (fur 
> stripping) for some metal pins to hold the tracks
> together or something like that.
> 
> For the most part, you won't see the train wheels as
> they are to be protected 
> as well.
> 
> Chris,
> Odyssey Slipways 
>