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I'm pre-empting a question here - "Do I mount my track on cork"? There are about four hundred members on this forum - so that's four hundred different answers. It is your decision - it does not reduce noise, but if you use cork underlay slightly wider than the track, it gives a nice "shoulder" when ballasting. BB

So true BB. And the next question usually refers to those naughty point things!

OK I will bite...........Peco .......All of it. Set Track .......Streamline They got the lot ...Wonderful stuff.. I have been using it since 1972. Don't think I have any of the original stuff left though..............I use flexi myself, always have.. When I built my first layout in the loft of my first house when I got married I went into the Model Shop in the Arcade Liverpool Street where I worked then and asked him what is best track to use and he said Peco.
That is best for a reasonable price. he told me.. Been using it ever since............................Was that a good Bite...... john

Ouch! Defo!

Peco any day. Only had one set of points fall to bits and they were very old and had be lifted and relaid many times.

BB, I was planning to use a layer of cork above the plywood everywhere, then have another layer of cork under the tracks. I saw this on a YouTube clip called Everard Junction and it worked really well. As you say it raises the tracks nicely.
As for track, I'm currently thinking peco code 75 bullhead. I think the bullhead will suit my 1964 era layout

I would like to add to my praise of peco earlier I was going through some older points. I came across an old double slip which I used for the first time on my first layout which I built in 1972 It is still serviceable but those older ones have been redesigned and the newer ones do look better. But it still works fine and will be used on the new layout. Waste not want not..................john

Rodent wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 7:26 pm BB, I was planning to use a layer of cork above the plywood everywhere, then have another layer of cork under the tracks. I saw this on a YouTube clip called Everard Junction and it worked really well. As you say it raises the tracks nicely.
As for track, I'm currently thinking peco code 75 bullhead. I think the bullhead will suit my 1964 era layout

Hi Rodent - I can recommend Everard Junction - I've got a lot of inspiration from watching his (Richard) YouTube videos. I mentioned in an earlier post, but I think the Peco Bullhead track only comes in flexi and a LH & RH point (Express) only - at the moment. I assume Code 75 Bullhead attaches to the normal Code 75 without any problems, although I believe you use normal Code 75 rail joiners when joining the different track - Bullhead has a different rail joiner which cannot be used with normal Code 75. Also if using cork underlay remember that your platforms will have to be raised by the same level - for example if you have 2mm cork under your track the platform will also have to be raised by 2mm - another item which it is easy to overlook. BB

Footplate1947, very interesting what you said about the folded 8. I haven't really thought about layers like that. Do you know what the maximum gradient that an oo gauge will manage?

BB, great point about the track/platform levels. I hadn't thought of that. When I was 10yrs old it was all very simple.....dc control, minimal scenary, I was happy just to run a train around a simple loop.
Now, aged 40 something, I haven't even started building and there are so many things to consider...