For those of you who use Gargraves Track on your layouts, do you use the plastic ties or wooden ties?
Also do you recommend the tinplated rails or stainless steel rails?
Thanks for your input.
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Unless you are going outdoors, tinplate with wood.
What Big Boy 4005 said
TNHokie just what Big Boy 4005 said wooden ties and tinplate also I use the GG 5 rail on my trestles. Choo Choo Kenny
I use both, Most of the curve track is plastic ties. I have some SS with plastic ties that I purchased at train shows near the end of my track laying due to only needing a few sections. All of the plastic ties are black, the wood ties are brown, tan and black in color.
The track with the tan ties was purchased in the early 80's.
Stainless with wood ties here. I use the Stainless 5 rail track on our club's modular layout. We're cleaning track a couple of times a day at show. I cannot explain why, but the stainless track stays cleaner, longer.
Just my $0.02
Gilly
My layout uses both Gargraves wooden tie and plastic tie track with some Ross thrown in. I prefer the wood for its softer more realistic look. The plastic tie track seems to bend very easily once the spacing rail is removed. The wood tie track fles great when its new but doesn't flex well after a year or more in storage. The plastic tie track can be stored for a very long time and it will still flex. Which is better? IMO, Wood for straight sections and Plastic for curves. Gargraves track may not be made exactly to scale but to the casual observer it looks like real track, save the center rail.
We do have some with the plastic ties. Don't really care for it and prefer the wood. Plastic is what you get with the fixed curves, so I'd advise paying the extra money and getting Ross fixed curves.
I prefer the look of the wood ties. I am putting down both tinplate and stainless track as I got a good deal on the stainless. I use the preformed curves since it seemed a whole lot easier then bending the track myself.
Al
Only worked with the wood ties. work great look great.
For indoors you can use either tinplate or stainless steel,
One thing to watch for is when you ballast the track the tinplate track has a tendency to pit so watch out for any erosion.
All wood ties and tinplate rails. We used sectional curves throughout and those are wood ties as well. Matches up great with Ross turnouts.
