Scenery will help!  While

Scenery will help!  While scenery is progressing, use heavy cardstock cut into 2" or 4" strips and attached to  splines....

Jim

we just

stapled strips of box cardboard around the edges of the curves - had to space it out from the edge of the spline with short strips of the spline material, to provide clearance.  

Blair

  "what are you using to

I'd just rough in the scenery with whatever you plan to use as a base( screen wire, cardboard strips, hard shell, etc).  You can't really proceed with any other facet of scenery without the base so why put it off? .....DaveB

Obviously,

my comment about cardboard was intended for 'hidden' track, such as in a tunnel.  Your "turnback loop" must have driven my brain in that direction, as that's precisely what we're building these days - a hidden turnback loop in a tunnel, with an exposed turnback loop above it.  If your track is in the open, yes, scenery is the obvious solution.  But even a bit of nylon bug screening fastened along either side of the spline will give you protection while you think about the scene, and can then be incorporated in whatever you choose to build around the track.

Blair

All, Thanks for the replies,

All,

Thanks for the replies, pretty much what I was thinking. This particular section will be hidden, so something like cardboard will do the trick.

Regards,

Lou

Lou,

Just remember to test whatever you install with your longest/widest loads and engines, and ensure there's enough clearance.

Blair

Blair, Yes indeed. I think I

Blair,

Yes indeed. I think I will either use some poster board or styrene spaced away from the spline with some blocks hot glued to the side.

Thanks,

Lou

HD sells a roll of cork

HD sells a roll of cork underlay that has a glued poly backing.  It's a rubbery substance with cork bits.  I cut strips of this and used flat head screws to secure it to the sides of the roadbed in hidden places where the rolling stock would be damaged in the event of a tumble.

fall protection

a very large club i was in decades back, used light very small hole wire screen, as in some area's a car (train) could fall over 10 feet down to the hard floor, or bounce off things on the way down.

this wire screen could very easly follow the spline sub roadbed quite easly, and one could see through it to do maintance,  luckly not many derailments, track work was that good.