Author Topic: Has anyone mated Atlas Code 65 Tru Track with Atlas Code 55?  (Read 2718 times)

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Re: Has anyone mated Atlas Code 65 Tru Track with Atlas Code 55?
« Reply #15 on: July 21, 2018, 01:56:50 AM »
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If you're using flex track, why not remove the ties from the end of a piece, and slide the Tru Track ties on?  No rail joint at all that way.
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Re: Has anyone mated Atlas Code 65 Tru Track with Atlas Code 55?
« Reply #16 on: July 22, 2018, 11:54:14 PM »
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I thought the idea was that it would look as close to scale as they could get it and still handle pizza-cutter wheelsets.  But yeah, since they're the only code 65 in town and never developed the line beyond a few train set pieces...it's not especially useful.  Really the only way they could have made a go of it and hit Unitrack where it hurts would have been to release a full line comparable to the Kato line with different turnout numbers, a huge array of curvatures, and different lengths...and that would have been a tremendous and risky investment.

It's funny because it never crossed their minds to fix the ONE thing that gave Pizza Cutters problems on smaller-than-Code-80 track: the spike detail.
Understood why they can't fix it on the Code 55 flex/sectional because all that tooling is permanent, but Tru Track is a newer product and, well, guess they never bothered to do any R&D.
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