[modeleng] Re: sleepers for 5" gauge track
- From: "R.L. Roebuck" <rlr20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:27:15 +0100 (BST)
Hi Cliff,
I would be perfectly happy with softwood sleepers, as long as you reckon
they are up to it.
It had been suggested to me that I ought to use hardwood, as the softwood
tended to rot and the struggled to hold the track in gauge.
It sounds like you've found them to be pretty good.
Yours,
Rich.
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Clif Walker wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> For a length of test track why not just softwood sleepers soaked in creosote
> or even tanalised wood which is supposed to last 25 years.
> On my ground level railway round my garden I used second hand softwood
> sleepers for the track from an old club layout, resoaked them and they are
> still fine.The points were made using tanalised timber also soaked in
> creosote.
> For Tanalised wood go to a builders yard and investigate roofing lats.These
> are rough sawn wood to which the tiles and slates are fixed and are about 2"
> X 1" .
>
> Regards
>
> Clif
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