Hi all,
I'm installing a small 2 rail trolley point to point section on my layout and I need tubular 2 rail track. Does anyone know where I can find this?
Thanks,
Sam
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If you're talking tubular a'la O-27, I don't think it's made any more. Best bet would be to try to track down some Marx wind-up track at a meet or pull the center rail from O-27 track and apply a healthy layer of ballast toward the center. If you're talking about a tubular 2-rail version of Gargraves, you can special order it from any Gargraves dealer or from Gargraves directly. For your basic Code 148, you can get Atlas from Norm's O Scale (www.normsoscale.com) and JD's Trains/AM Hobbies (www.amhobbiesonline.com). You can get Micro Engineering from JD's Trains/Am Hobbies and MicroMark (www.micromark.com)
Hope this helps.
I tried to get G scale stainless direct from Gargraves. They said I had to order it through a dealer. I ordered it through Trainz. They shipped the box to Trainz first and then to me. It was the wrong stuff! (3 rail O gauge).
I don't know to this day who's fault it was. It was sad because of all that shipping and Gargraves is a little more than an hour away!
Enginear-Joe, if you get it from Gargraves directly it will cost you way more. I ordered mine from a LHS near me and Gargraves brought it to York and gave it to my LHS, also at York. And I picked it up from LHS at his table at York. NO shipping!!!
If I remember right Gargraves price a little more than 9 bucks a piece. LHS around 7 bucks a piece. If I remember correctly.
I got the Gargraves Stainless steel in G scale. Very nice.
Someday I might even use it. LOL
Rick
If you order and pay at say Trainz or Ro, you can pick up a GarGraves order at the factory. Just make the arrangement with your dealer and Don Roder.
Originally Posted by samdjr74:
.....2 rail trolley..........tubular 2 rail track.
Is there some reason why regular 2-rail track will not serve? Code 125 flex track should be fine for this use.
Mostly because of aesthetics. I run prewar tinplate all of tubular track and would like to keep everything looking similiar
Originally Posted by mwb:
Originally Posted by samdjr74:
.....2 rail trolley..........tubular 2 rail track.
Is there some reason why regular 2-rail track will not serve? Code 125 flex track should be fine for this use.
Ok. I kind of thought that might be your reasoning. What kind of 2-rail trolley are you planning on running? Powered from overhead wire?
It's a two rail ETS tram/trolley, no overhead connection.
At this point I guess the best thing to do is take some older regular 3 rail O and yank the center rail and insulate one of the outer rails.
Originally Posted by mwb:
Ok. I kind of thought that might be your reasoning. What kind of 2-rail trolley are you planning on running? Powered from overhead wire?
Originally Posted by samdjr74:
..... insulate one of the outer rails.
That was what was lurking behind my unwritten question....
And it's easy enough to do on a short rail line but I guess I was looking for the easy way out.
Originally Posted by mwb:
Originally Posted by samdjr74:
..... insulate one of the outer rails.
That was what was lurking behind my unwritten question....
Samdjr - you may want to consider hunting down some old Kusan tubular sectional 2 rail track. Someone has just listed 15 pieces on eBay
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