Could you 'splain this a little clearer or perhaps a pic or two when you have time.
Thanx,
jb
John Bouck said:
Could you 'splain this a little clearer or perhaps a pic or two when you have time.
Thanx,
jb
JB
Slip joiners = rail joiners that you can slide. As opposed to the xxx variety that have that tang to keep them in place. BTW for the brass track I made my own joiners using a standard KS U-profile.
Hans–I know that! 
I’m innerested in the stakes and plates------or is that steaks and plates.
jb
Some places we use 4X4 treated buried at grade.
Then, a plate across the top, "T"d if a long span.
Some places, TREX stakes avery 1-2’ and track screwed to those.
The plates allow the railroad to stay put, especially with a LOT of fill that WILL settle.
Add dirt, gravel, whatever as it settles, and the railroad stays where you put it.
I don’t know how many hundred feet of track is set up that way, as with dirt fill behind retaining walls, nobody knows it’s there.
I will try to get shots of exposed areas.
We ran trains, 4’ above the ground with no passing tracks or industries while we figured where we wanted stuff, THEN started the retaining walls and fill.
TOC