Nickle silver rail color

[Smudge617]

When I decide to do another layout, I may well try a small HO layout for my HO, and the ME track looks good to try, admittedly I'll definitely make one for my OO stock, nice thing about it is I can use both on the OO rails,

 

[Selector]

Alcomotive is looking for the ME Ladder Track Code 83 #5e Last Ladder - LH, but bugger if he or I can find one anywhere, I've checked all the UK suppliers, and I'm now looking in the rest of Europe for one, code 83 #5's I can find, but not the #5e???

I waited a whole year for the B turnout. Got it two years back. If ME isn't going belly up, should be available again by the fall.

 

[Smudge617]

I waited a whole year for the B turnout. Got it two years back. If ME isn't going belly up, should be available again by the fall.

Yeah, apparently it was announced in one of the RR magazine's that it was being sold, but I couldn't find by who.

 

[gunslinger]

it appears to me to be silvery

 

[Dick Eggleston]

Late to the conversation, I've used code 81 steel rail for years from C&L Finescale in the UK. Downside is they have to cut into half meter lenghts or else the shipping is more than the product price. It is a steel/lead alloy that is easy to shape, and takes solder really well. Corrosion is no worse than brass or n/s, and when laid next to n/s it makes n/s look slightly rusted on top. So n/s on side tracks improves realism. Steel conductivity is superior to n/s too. Nickel silver by itself may look silvery, but next to steel it has a brassy undertone, probably because nickel silver doesn't actually contain silver, but it does contain copper.

 

[Mopac Junkie]

I have some 20+ year old Atlas nickel silver and some new nickel silver track. The old stuff definitely has a gold tint to it.