Alanburford9101 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Hi as I live in Sweden I buy my track etc from Germany as it's so expensive to buy from the UK. Does anyone have experience from running trains on Fleischman/Lima track. And are points an issue? Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atom3624 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Not familiar with the track but I suppose it depends on the age of the rolling stock / locomotives, thus how deep the wheel flange profile is relative to the track design / profile. Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanburford9101 Posted March 7 Author Share Posted March 7 Hi I have fairly modern locos and rolling stock and the rails are said to be code 100 Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntpntpntp Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Shouldn't be a problem. Code 100 rail is tall and will accommodate older deeper flanges. I guess the only possible problem could be the back-to-back measurement through Fleischmann turnouts, but their track system has been around for decades and will have been designed for old Fleischmann models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellocoloco Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Any Lima track after 2004 would be Hornby track and as far as I know any more recent Fleischmann track would be Roco, who coincidently used to produce track for Hornby. I have Hornby, Fleischmann, Roco, Mehano, Athearn, Trix, Atlas, Mabar, Bachmann and other models running on Hornby, Roco and Peco track with no issues so you should be fine as you have modern stock and code 100 rails. Its not something I have ever worried about when buying stock from different manufacturers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanburford9101 Posted March 7 Author Share Posted March 7 Ok thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanburford9101 Posted March 7 Author Share Posted March 7 Hi Sounds good. I am currently bidding on some Fleischman track. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brew Man Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 I suppose the question to ask is can you mix and match with other makes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellocoloco Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Alan, Are you running OO models? If so check the radius of any curves you bid on. I don't now about Fleischmann, but Roco R2 work are slightly tighter than Hornby R1. Roco R3 is about the same as Hornby R2 so probably a minimum for reasonable sized OO models. Roco R3 would be better. Continental track geometry is tighter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rana Temporia Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 If you have some of the older HO points (turnouts) they were not all self isolating like most modern makes. The Jouef ones had a sliding fishplate to isolate them but then you had to have other electrical feeds. The old Lima points were rubbish and fell to bits at the slightest provocation! I have never worried about mixing and matching track and in fact some of my old Tri-ang trains run very well on older continental track which is very close to current standards but as Elloloco says, watch the radii. Some have their R1 at around 12.5” which would form a circle inside Hornby R1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanburford9101 Posted March 8 Author Share Posted March 8 Thank you all for your comments which I greatly appreciate. I have bought some Fleischman/Lima track now and will build a test layout and test my locos on that. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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