Fast Tracks

I started playing around with 19 degree crossings and I have a stupid question. Is the crossing supposed to be constructed with a butt joint where the 2 outer rails intersect at the middle? If so, this makes for a very weak connection between the 2 halves. After building 2 of these, by the way crossing are WAY harder to build than turnouts, I decided to build one without the butt joints. I replaced all the obtuse butt joints with bends and seems to work really well so far. Should result in much sturdier trackwork. Any thoughts?

You are doing it much better. Its a issue of the templates and fixtures space avialable layout. Yes crossings are harder than a standard turnout.

-ed-

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-ed mccamey-
COSLAR RR - http://www.coslar.us/
NMRA Standards and Conformance Department
PROTO & FINE Scale Coordinator
I estimate I have about 5 pounds of coupler springs somewhere in the vicinity of my workbench.