Gargraves Stainless track says Stainless on the bottum of a few ties per piece

the stainless I have does not work with magnatraction.

The reason I like stainless steel track is that it won't rust as quickly as other track will. I have to deal with a moisture problem where I live and stainless steel track works best for that.

I don't have any magna-traction engines so I don't worry about that.

Lee Fritz

It's all steel, just depends on the chromium content with other metals that reduce the magnetic qualities.

The alloy is determined by the application. I don't believe that Gargraves publishes the type of stainless used, but I would imagine that it has a low amount of chromium and nickel to maintain electrical conductivity and improve corrosion resistance.

The Gargraves stainless flex track I have does have the phantom center rail and it is magnetic although less magnetic than the non-stainless Gargraves I have which is very much less magnetic than regular Lionel tubular or Super O.

Bill

Try using the old piano wire trick by putting lengths of the thickest piano wire that will fit inside the outside rails of the Gargraves track.  It will help.   

Bill

I have Gargraves stainless for G scale and it is NOT marked on the ties.  But, on the bottom of the middle tie (or close to it) it is painted silver.

Rick

Rick:

Now that you mention it, I have some O Gauge Stainless Gargraves flex track with the end of 3 ties painted silver on the underside.  The ties that are painted are spread over the entire section with one near the middle and one near each end.  The silver paint extends about 5/16^th of an inch from the end of the tie which makes it look square because the width of the tie is also 5/16^th.  The sections with these ties painted do not have the word “Stainless” stamped in silver across one tie near the center of the track like most of the other stainless sections I have.  I don’t know how I ended up with a mixture.  All of my few sections of Standard gauge Gargraves flex track are non-stainless.

Another difference I noticed on my Gargraves flex track is that the ties on the non-stainless track are brown while the ties on the stainless are a very dark gray, almost black.  But that may possibly be from differences in when I bought the track.  I bought the stainless way back in the late 1960’s but bought the non-stainless over the last 2 through 18 years.  So they may have changed the color of ties on all track over those many years.

Bill