Improving Flex Track By Making It Look Worse

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Wanted to post this here for posterity:
https://conrail1285.com/improving-atlas-code-55-track-by-making-it-look-worse/

[John]

Wanted to post this here for posterity:
https://conrail1285.com/improving-atlas-code-55-track-by-making-it-look-worse/

You could always use the stuff I have in the junk box -- it's already distressed with missing and crooked ties

[basementcalling]

I think it was John Allen who used to bury stripwood in his backyard for 6 months, then dig it up after Mother Nature worked her magic on it. Not sure she could touch the plastic ties Atlas uses though.

[nkalanaga]

Buried, probably not.  Left in the sun, UV would likely damage the ties, but whether it would "improve" them is debatable.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

You could always use the stuff I have in the junk box -- it's already distressed with missing and crooked ties

Have you seen flex track prices lately? You could be sitting on a gold mine!

[JeffB]

Have you seen flex track prices lately? You could be sitting on a gold mine!

Say again??  I'm sitting on two bundles of Atlas N scale Code 55 flextrack that I'll never use.  Going to have to check out the prices it's fetching on ebay.

JB

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Say again??  I'm sitting on two bundles of Atlas N scale Code 55 flextrack that I'll never use.  Going to have to check out the prices it's fetching on ebay.

JB

I don't know about eBay, but I know that it now retail prices are about $6-7 a stick.

[Chris333]

MBK list $4.89 a stick, but if you buy a 25 pack it comes out to $5.96 a stick 

Crazy I popped all the rail out of mine to build turnouts.