Hi all. I have to put in several grade crossings, and the procedure has me kinda stumped. How do you all do it? Not neccessarily the wood, concrete, gravel, etc. crossing between the rails itself, but the approaches. The (future) road leads up to the cork roadbed. Now what? Do you guys and gals leave the beveled cork roadbed in place, and putty/plaster/etc. over the bevel and level with the top of the cork? Do you cut out the beveled portion? And how do you all deal with the slope that will occur between the top of the cork, and the level (vehicle) road (before the crossing)? Hope I made it clear enough (what I'm asking) for you all to be able to respond to. Thanx, and take care, Mark
I model N-scale, so this might not work in other scales, but what I have done is use 3mm hobby foam as the base of my road. Where the highway crosses the tracks, I trim the foam to end just at the ties...I place a small piece of styrene rod under the gap. This makes the road lead up to the ties. I cover the ties with small THIN sheets of styrene, between the ties and on each side, these are then painted a semi gloss black. Jeff Augsburg & Concord R.R. (a fictional shortline in Central Illinois) http://www.pegnsean.net/~revnjeff
Hey Mark, What I do is bring my road height close to the cork size, I usually use cardboard for my roads, I leave just a slight angle approach, then make my crossings out of strip wood!!
