Selection of Peco track

[Alan Feldon]

I can't remember exactly when I started modelling in 009 but it was around about 1970 and all the model shops were advertising Peco 9" radius points -the only problem was that none actually had any , so I can assure you the problem was much greater then than now .
I ended up with a layout comprising an oval of track with a gap where the point was supposed to be for many months  !
I then discovered that Grafar produced a 9.5" radius LIVE frog N point and in the end was forced to buy one of these to complete the circuit .

[Phil Needham]

I've just heard that the PECO warehouse has reopened today.

[Dave Cooper]

Hi All and Happy New Year,

Just catching up on this earlier thread when I remembered that I'm part-way through the process of removing every other sleeper on the NG part of my diorama.

This is just an experiment to see what the overall effect looks like. Hence, I have some sections of 'as bought' Code 80 flexi-track mixed in with other sections (with revised ballast) of 'alternate-sleeper' track.

I originally got 2 metres of flexi from the model shop and a point fell nicely at the junction of these going  into a station /siding...The point is still fully sleepered (Peco left-hand curved), but, I could take a few shots of the experimental sections ? (As the point is part-located on a viaduct release, it will remain "as is" but with planking to rail level thus concealing the underlying sleepers anyway).

Hope this helps,
Dave
ps Forgot to mention above that my commercial NG track is Peco 'N' gauge, Code 80.

[B.Meldon]

........I originally got 2 metres of flexi from the model shop..........

Dave
ps Forgot to mention above that my commercial NG track is Peco 'N' gauge, Code 80.

I have to ask.....

Other than saving 80p on a yard of track why would you purchase N gauge track for a 009 layout?

Why not just get 009 track and save all the bother of trying to make N gauge look like 009 track?

[Dave Cooper]

Good questions Brian,

1. When I first started out, the original aim was to see if I could make a diorama /small layout just to see how I got on with the twin gauges of 00 and N.

2. The competing candidates were HO and P4 for SG, plus, I didn't really know what for the NG part !

3. Then I came across 009 at an exhibition (and via an old magazine) but, by that stage, I was 3/4 in to the new baseboard with track and wiring done...

Price didn't really come into it, I just bought what the model shop had in stock. So, I guess the true answer to your questions is "IGNORANCE" !!!  However, it was /is a good learning curve (especially trying to go from 00 to P4 via a Toad brake van...) and, fun - that's what it's all about isn't it ? 

I'm rather afraid the 'Inveterate Tinkerer' just won't lie down...