starting Hi rail layout

Scaletrax is great I love it! Sounds like your plans are looking good so far are you wanting to design a folded dogbone style layout?

hey will

im not to sure on the layout yet due to the fact im guna be starting off small for now im guna follow the walls and go from there. How big is your coaling station that you made.

I have used Scaletrax for permanent mounted track on structure ramps, etc., but

have thought it hard to work with and keep joined, and also a pain to mate with other brands if you need a special radius or double crossover, etc.  I far and away prefer its lower profile as to appearance over any other available for three rail (except for maybe laying your own with scale rail) but I have wondered about flanges..will everything you might be running on this track through switches, crossings, etc., with no problems?  I would think everything from MTH would track through it...

I had thought to start with a branch, that could be operated as an entity, and operated by switching, completing it as a learning mode, track, scenery, structures and then build from the main line junction after I got the bugs out of the small beginning.  This would permit a relatively small initial investment, too.

My biggest obstacle is that I haven't wanted to get into all the carpentry.

well for switchs im guna be going with gragrave because they have all the sizes in manual and i have more fun with walking to each switch and doing it myself.

The only equipment I can think of that might have a problem with ScaleTrax is old American Flyer O Gauge and some Marx due to higher flanges. Everything else I've tried on it works

Well, while contemplating a section with a switch of Scaletrax, I happened to pick up

a car with scale trucks, good metal, well sprung arch bars (that I plan to convert to three rail trucks or maybe just the wheel sets) and hand pushed it around....to my surprise it tracked very well on the flat rails of Scaletrax.

So I wonder if people are running O scale trucked rolling stock on it without problems, those that have converted to Kadees, or whatever?