Hi,
I'm trying to combine Walthers turnouts with ROCO sectional track and don't know how to join these right way. The problem is that sectional track has some tie cutting at ends to let joiners set in easily while Walthers turnouts have not. I know PECO Code 83 turnouts (well, crossings at least - the ones I have) also have a gap under the rail for joiners.
I can cut out some end ties from Walthers turnouts and make a place for joiners but there will be a hole between ties. Is there a way to replace ties after the rail ends are under the joiners ?
I'm using ROCO and Atlas joiners - do not know if there kind of shorter rail joiners, may be Walthers is doing them shorter then Altlas or ROCO just for that purpose ?
I'm also thinking of buying Atlas short-length (2") strait tracks - they have tie cuttings the way ROCO sectional track have, and cut the tie endings from them to replace walthers ties with. What do you think of it ?
Thanks,
Dmitri
PS. You see I'm not building a layout so I prefer not to nail down any track nor solder joins nor do anything of that kind.