Track/point parts

[Martino]

I was musing tonight over the cost of point work. I have some plans for building points/turnouts/switches, although these do involve creating the frogs etc, which I feel may be beyond me at the moment.

I recall my father (in the '30s) built his own O gauge track (no points though) by using rail, wood sleepers and chairs. The latter he obtained from some specialist - probably common at the time when most folks built their own track.

Does anyone produce the various parts for creating track these days? Obviously there is rail available, and sleepers are not an issue, but how about chairs and pre formed frogs?

 

[Tony]

Try these i havnt got around to contacting them yet to see what options are, but rumour i heard was you can use some parts from the Gauge 1 list to make G scale points as they dont sell ready made ones ? if you want il ring later and enquire they are only 15 miles from me. im using a lot of their flexy track its a lot lighter than lgb and more of a pain to lay but seems to work well enough and a lot cheaper
Tony

http://www.tenmille.com/index.html

 

[stockers]

You can get course scale gauge 1 chairs. Not sure which profile rail they use.

 

[Gizzy]

Try these i havnt got around to contacting them yet to see what options are, but rumour i heard was you can use some parts from the Gauge 1 list to make G scale points as they dont sell ready made ones ? if you want il ring later and enquire they are only 15 miles from me. im using a lot of their flexy track its a lot lighter than lgb and more of a pain to lay but seems to work well enough and a lot cheaper
Tony

http://www.tenmille.com/index.html

I work just up the road from Tenmille.

It's very much a cottage industry, run from home. Or rather, the garage.

They will make points using code 332 rail and their G scale sleepers if required, although as they normally make these for live steam, you will have to make the necessary modifications for electrical operation....

 

[Martino]

Thank you everyone - and also for the offers to help. That's all superb info.

I'm still at early early stages, so there's no rush to get the stuff - I'm just seeing what's available.

Both the Tenmille and Cliff Barker stuff looks ideal - I guess I may be creating finer scale trackwork than I thought, even though this may be 'coarse scale'!

Great to find rail chairs and also that there is flat bottomed rail about (I think that may be going to far for my needs - but a nice dream to have.

The point rodding etc is also a great find.

So, many thanks for those pointers and I guess my next move is to find out if there are similar things available her in the US, that I can try before launching into the major task with the pukkah UK stuff.

Thanks again - isn't this forum great?

 

[minimans]

Martin try Pete at Sunset valley railroad................... http://www.svrronline.com/about.html

http://www.svrronline.com/Switches.html

 

[Martino]

Great Paul - looks very good. Thanks