Sorry for exacerbating the thread drift.??
Paul, that proposed technique would work well if the rail foot is buried, it would be quick to build and robust.
I had considered that technique myself, perhaps even using Karlgarin flat bottom to get a broader rail head.? With ground built up and dummy half chairs added later to hide its flat bottom origins.? At the time I was investigating it I was unable to purchase
any to see how that might look.? One area of concern is that pictures of points show more of the rail revealed, this is obviously required to enable movement.? I'm not sure how I'd have navigated this.
To model Penrhyn track that wouldn't be an option.? Time consuming as it might be there is something beautiful about bullhead track.? It's almost down to modellers now to re-create it as full scale it is time consuming and expensive too so disappearing for
most heritage railways.
I've no space for a layout at the moment anyhow.? For now I'll continue dabbling with buildings and stock.
Rich
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This thread seems to have drifted into FR track! ?I did indeed lay Dinas with ?S Scale Society code 95 rail and used their cast whitemetal chairs. This has now been discontinued in favour of the smaller code 87 with C&L type plastic chairs. ?
One day I hope to extend Dinas. The layout is set in the 1860-70s, when all the track was ballasted right over, obscuring all the sleepers and most of the chairs. I may well just cheat and use Peco code 100 and soldered construction on copper clad sleepers
next time. The tiny bit of chair showing could be added later. The rail height becomes immaterial as does the look of the sleepers. Threading rail onto chairs is almost as tedious as spiking rails down, as in Hulme End ?
Cheers
Paul ?
