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The specific rail joiners for Peco code 55 track seem to be expensive at $.10 each (24 for $2.50 best price I could find). I understand Atlas rail joiners are a different fit (narrower). Can they be used as a less expensive substitute?
I'm using Atlas joiners with Atlas code 80 Flex track and Peco turnouts. They work fine.
I saw a video of a guy who made a special tool for this. He cut a piece of a single peco track rail about three or four inches long and put some kind of a small handle on it. Then he uses it to pre-widen each rail joiner before putting his track sections together.
Elsewhere someone complained about the look of the Atlas joiners. I just picked up a package of Peco's and they are smaller than what I remember Atlas to be.
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