Hi:
Recently been given some N scale Peco track (2' sections). I was told that Peco and ATlas have problems when combining the two. I made a comment about this at teh Train store today and the guy said there is none.
Just wondering if there is a compatibility issue.
Rather B. Beachen snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com
Don't know about the N scale variety, but there's no problems with HO using those two brands, as long as it's the same code size (and probably no problem with two different sizes as long as you use an adapter railjoiner.
Well, yes and no. ANY two brands of track (of the same gauge) can be joined somehow or other, but not as simply as just sliding them together. Atlas and Peco code 80 will, though.(Bear in mind that BOTH of those companies make more than one size N scale rail.) Sometimes you solder a rail joiner onto one and file the top of the exposed protruding joiner until the other track levels out and then it is soldered on. You can also file the bottom of the track as well as the top of the joiner. Trial and error. This is also how two different rail sizes are joined (as in 55 to 70).
-John
"Rob"
Actually, PECO track is spaced more to North American standards as the ties (sleepers) and too narrow for UK practice and are also too close together for UK practice. Their switches/points/turnouts and sort of a mid Atlantic prototype, being neither based on UK practice nor North American but, due to the use of a continuos curve through the crossing/frog and the way the ties/sleepers are arranged, look a bit more British than North American.
-- Cheers Roger T.
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