Roadbed

Laying some glue for a straight-line portion of the tracks (depot area).

Here on a curve of the mainline, the cork has been cut to strips (half the width of the roadbed's final width). This helps a lot in following the traced track lines on the plywood. The cork strips are staggered on the curves in order not to have any kinks on the curvature.

This is an example of the staggering

Onto laying tracks on the next post...

Finally some tracks!

A part of the mainline on a curve is about to "land" onto the roadbed. Feeders are soldered every 3' (sometimes denser than that if there are turnouts in between). All railjoiners are soldered on curves and have feeder wires soldered onto them.

All turnous also have feeders soldered onto them. Notice the hole for the tortoise installation. Turnouts have been nailed into place using Peco track nails.

Mainline curve pinned into position.

A series of turnouts in Pasadena's industrial area finally installed.

Tortoise installation. Although i made a template out of styrene, i ended up not using it. Instead i opted for using double sided tape to hold it to position for alignment/tests and when it operated as it should i  screw-fastened it into place.

Final result. All tracks installed at the corner of my industrial area. Outer (mainline) curve is 31" radius with easements.

Nice easements there Yannis.

Nice easements there Yannis. Is that Peco code 83?

Hey Deemiorgos,

Yes Peco code 83 flextrack, and the turnouts are (almost) all electrofrogs. I used insulated rail joiners on the frog side of the turnouts with the exception of a few spurs where you can get away without having to use insulated joiners.

Thanks for stopping by!

Yannis, I do like Peco and

Yannis,

I do like Peco and hope they go through with making code 70; I'd stock up on a lot of turnouts and flex track in case someday I get a bigger space to create a larger layout.

Peco does make code 75. But

Peco does make code 75. But tie spacing look is all wrong for USA railroads etc. but then again

Phil