Greetings to all this fine Sunday afternoon. So currently on one of the doors of my little layout there is a figure eight part that has an older metal 90 degree cross track. A couple of my post war engines just don't like going across it. Knocks the e unit into neutral and naturally stops the train unless moving at 14 volts on my ZW. I Love the sound(clickety clack) but run slower, BUZZ stop isn't pretty. Anyway I have a less primitive brand new K line shadow rail 90 degree cross track that might improve things more. Just one issue, the actual track is shorter on all four corners than the Lionel one. Probably by 1/2 inch. What to do now? I guess I could cut a few straight track pieces to fill the 4 gaps. But connecting them might be a challenge. Or might I be able to bridge the ends of the short side of cross track to following track with some rail , rest on top of other tubular rails and add some ties? Any ideas? Is that a feasible idea? Current Track geometry dictates that in order to do this all I need are four extensions without disturbing the current layout integrity.
anyone do anything like this before? Short track extensions?
Thanks for any info.
leroof
