ICG/SOU
HO & O (3-rail) trainman
Getting ready to finish laying track, and I wanted to go over a couple of questions:
1) how much of a gap between track sections (held in place by track joiner) is allowable? I imagine some of it will depend on the car/locomotive (with loose enough trucks), wheelsets (metal, mostly regular but few semi-scale), track code (100), and where the gap is on the line (near curves).
2) when track sections meet up, and one rail is a little taller than the other, what do you use to make them flush? Dremel on low speed? File? I'm talking 1/2 a millimeter or less, but visible.
Thanks in advance.
1) how much of a gap between track sections (held in place by track joiner) is allowable? I imagine some of it will depend on the car/locomotive (with loose enough trucks), wheelsets (metal, mostly regular but few semi-scale), track code (100), and where the gap is on the line (near curves).
2) when track sections meet up, and one rail is a little taller than the other, what do you use to make them flush? Dremel on low speed? File? I'm talking 1/2 a millimeter or less, but visible.
Thanks in advance.