fastrack match up?

I have close to 400 feet of fastrack and have not experienced this problem. Except for a few pieces that developed rust, it has been trouble free. Can't wait for others to chime in.

 

Bob

I agree, I have 300-400 feet of fastrack and have no warping issues at all.  Fastrack lays nice and level in my experience, not even one piece that had to be swapped out for any issue. 

What kind of screws did you use?  Did you use something bigger than a #4 and pinch the base?  I can't think of any other reason why you would have this problem

Is it possible that the track could be screwed down to tight in some places ? Just a thought.

I ran into this issue with the last batch of fast track O-60 curves I bought.

 

The rails were not set all the way into the road bed. I know this may sound strange, but after taking a short section of 1x4, I pressed down on the rails carefully and heard & felt the rails snap into place. No more odd high spots in the rails. My equipment ran smoothly. Also had a few straight pieces that had one rail not set all the way at the joining end. Fixed it the same way.

 

I hope this helps.

 

Henry J.

I don't think he is talking about the roadbed. I have seen this without the track being screwed down. The roadbed joins up perfectly, but sometimes one rail won't at the joint. There will be a lip where the rails join. In other words, one rail is a hair higher than the joining rail. I haven't had any opertional issues with this, but you can hear the trains bump over the rail joint. My fix is to unbend the tabs at the joint on the higher rail, push it down as far as I can, then rebend the tabs tightly. Usually fixes the problem.

additionally i might add this problem seems to be only on straight track with the worst offenders being 4.5" and 5" track 

I have the same problem with one of my curved RealTrax. It doesn't hurt operation, but the bump and noise are there. I chalk it up to mass production and haven't decided how I'll tackle it if I decide to stay with RealTrax. I can remember having any number of tracks out of alignment back in the day, so this is nothing new to me. Given the number of track I've got compared to the number I had then, I'm way ahead of the game today, though track is certainly much more expensive now. I think everyone who has ever laid a track has done some tweaking and I'm actually surprised Fast track and RealTrax fit as well as they do.

RJ,

   I do believe I may have answered you other post on this a while back.

It does seem that the last run or so of FasTrack did have some problems in the manner you are talking about, I bought up a bunch of the older FasTrack at the tain shows to make sure I got the older perfect FasTrack rather than investing in the newer track.   Look the FasTrack over at the train shows and purchase the older

track, no mismatch and less cost for the track.

Pine Creek/Dave