Southern Pacific Switching Layout

[Justinmiller171]

If the purchasing department can come up with the funds, I'd go with the extruded foam for sure. What little excess you may end up with can always be used for some other purpose. Not sure why you'd have to reduce the length of your layout using the expanded (beaded?) foam, but I'd steer clear of that.

Doing a little test on a piece of the expanded (beaded) foam that I have here, I found that it won't hold track nails very well. At least not as well as the extruded foam does, if you're planning on testing out different track arrangements. And those little white beads seem to pop off of it if you look at it cross-eyed.

Will be looking forward to your new thread when you get all your materials and get started with the layout.

Thanks Ed

My order is expected to arrive Thursday, I will try to tape down the track to get a good idea of how it will look.

In the meantime I have been starting to think that there is still a problem with my engine, everytime I clean my test track the engine will run good for alittle bit, but after about 2 trips across the test track it begins stopping and starting alot, even in idle it will occasionally lose power and start up again. tomorrow I will try and take apart the engine again and see what the problem is.