On this layout I have used a lot more flexitrack than on any other previous layout, as there are few 'standard' radius curves. Most of the track is Peco or Atlas, the turnouts being Peco, Atlas, and Shinohara. The track is ballasted using stone chips of a realistic size, glued down with a mixture of about 50 / 50 water to wood glue. The glue solution was applied using a syringe (without the needle) which I purchased from my local pharmacy. Currently the track is made up of:

* 35 x standard Left or Right Peco Settrack, Peco Streamline, Atlas, and Shinohara turnouts
* 1 x Shinohara Double Slip
* 1 x Peco Single Slip
* 1 x 3 Way Peco turnout
* 1 x 'Y' Peco turnout
* About 62 metres (185 feet) of track as mainline, sidings, spurs, etc.

Motorized Turnouts

I have motorized most of the turnouts that come directly off the main track. When I originally laid the track, I had no plans to motorize any turnouts, and so little or no provision was made for adding point motors! Some track that was not ballasted I could remove and place a Peco point motor underneath. But ballasted points were another matter. I tried a Rix point motor, mounted under the layout, which connected via a small hole drilled through the baseboard between the turnout tracks, to the point blades. This sort of worked but not satisfactorily enough, so I scrapped that idea. Instead I removed the ballasted turnouts and made holes underneath, which I placed Peco point motors in. Then I re-laid the Peco turnouts, and re-ballasted. It was a fairly drastic step, but in the end I think the Peco motors will work better than any other motor I know of with the track work that I wanted to motorize.

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