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Title: Track layout
Post by: Dutch Kills on December 20, 2007, 11:27:40 PM

I would like to create a layout with a 10 foot curve (Radius). How can I do it with O gauge track?
Title: Re: Track layout
Post by: Guilford Guy on December 21, 2007, 12:11:02 AM
Wow!
10ft radii!
The largest mass produced is O-99, 99"diameter by atlas...
https://secure.atlasrr.com/ato1/itemdesc.asp?CartId={3C17AA02-9733-408B-9656-F7314CADC73EVEREST9}&ic=6014&eq=&Tp=
Title: Re: Track layout
Post by: Dutch Kills on December 21, 2007, 01:27:05 AM

Alex, thanks for the tip, I'll give it a try. Is o guage track in Flex produced?
Thanks
Title: Re: Track layout
Post by: SteamGene on December 21, 2007, 09:09:22 AM
Dutch,
Are you Dutch or German by any chance?
Gene
Title: Re: Track layout
Post by: Guilford Guy on December 21, 2007, 12:31:03 PM
https://secure.atlasrr.com/ato1/itemdesc.asp?CartId={B048E8DE-6E5C-48EVEREST43-8C0F-7DD107870EC2}&ic=6056&eq=&Tp= It also comes in Two Rail as well as 3 rail.
Title: Re: Track layout
Post by: Dutch Kills on December 21, 2007, 06:16:15 PM

  Neither, my parents are from Greece. The civic association to which we belong is called the  "Dutch Kills Civic Association of Long Island City"
in Queens NY.

The area was settled by the Dutch in 1664. The word "kills" in Dutch means rivers or small streams, hence the name.
Title: Re: Track layout
Post by: SteamGene on December 21, 2007, 08:38:40 PM
Okay.  I was just struck by the German sentence structure of your last sentence.  I think that the  structure is Dutch, too.  I thought maybe a translation problem caused the ten foot radius - which I agree is something else again for a model train layout.
Gene
Title: Re: Track layout
Post by: Woody Elmore on December 22, 2007, 09:23:39 AM
Thus the name "Kill van Kull" in Staten Island or Great Kills, also in SI, where the remains of the WTC were taken.

I would definitely use Atlas flex track. Are you talking 10 foot diameter or 10 foot radius?

I've seen O Scale layouts with 72" radius track and that was impressive. I'd love to see 10 foot radius. Good luck with your project.

Title: Re: Track layout
Post by: r.cprmier on December 22, 2007, 01:40:43 PM
Dutch;
Where are your parents from?  My Mom was from Salonika; my real father's family was from Drama.

Rich
Title: Re: Track layout
Post by: Mark Damien on December 22, 2007, 09:05:33 PM

Peco makes some O Gauge flextrack.

They make Bullhead as well as Flat bottom. Here are the Flat bottom codes.

I don't know what the availability or expense would be in your area, but at least it gives you a little more choice.

SL-700-FB      Flexi Track Code 143 “Flat bottom Rail”, Wooden Sleeper. 1 Yard.
SL-700-BH      Flexi Track Code 124 “Bullhead Rail”, Wooden Sleeper. 1 Yard

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