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I'm in the middle of both revamping a club layout and my own personal layout using Atlas track. That said, there are some Fastrack and some regular tubular track features that must remain tubular so I need to adapt from Atlas rail to tubular. In some of the track that was donated was older Atlas tubular rail transition joiners and they correctly match the top of the rail of the tubular to the Atlas solid rail. So I ordered 4 packages of the #6095 transition joiners for this project and upon trying to use the new joiners noticed a massive height error in the transition. So much so, I cannot see how they ever could work. I'm just wondering if somehow I missed a detail or these are completely incorrect?

Atlas rail joiner

This picture below is a new rail joiner from the package that places the tubular well above the rail height of the Atlas rail. This creates a dropoff cliff or bump from tubular to Atlas.

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This shows an older used adapter pin that came with some of the donated track. This is below the rail head such that the resulting tuber is exactly level and there is no bump.

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Again, just trying to figure out, has anyone seen this? I just feel like this could never work and I have 4 packages of them.

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Last edited by Vernon Barry
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