Track - the book

[Paul Willis]

Waiting for me when I returned home yesterday was the latest issue of the 2mm Association magazine. Apart from some inspiring modelling from our smaller scale finescale cousins, there was an update on their publication about track.

Or to give it the full title "Track - How it works and how to model it"

I bought a copy of the book when it was originally published a decade ago. It's now been updated, and the new edition is available from the 2mm Association.

It's described as having more information on prototype track, and on track building techniques. Whilst it obviously focuses on 2mm products and techniques, the prototype information and some of the techniques are very useful to P4 modelling. As ever (and the reason that I keep an Association membership) is that the 2mm boys and girls can sometimes have novel and effective solutions to modelling that we can use in our larger scale..

If you don't have a copy of the first edition of the book, I highly recommend it. Copies from the Association online shop here https://www.2mm.org.uk/products/nms/index.html

Best,
Paul

[Hardwicke]

Is it a decade now? I bought one and the less useful one by Andrew Dow, which seemed to be random articles from technical publications (or the NRM library), without truly coherent understanding. The 2mm book together with the MRSG, P4 and S4 articles in the 60's-80's are a good basis. Still no decent articles on Flat Bottomed or welded practices despite it being almost 100 years old in the UK. Same goes for colour light signalling (MAS).

[Hardwicke]

A copy of British Railway Track by the Permanent Way Institution is also a must.

[Martin Wynne]

Still no decent articles on Flat Bottomed or welded practices

Hi,

Lots of flat-bottom info in these articles:

https://www.mmrs.co.uk/technical-articl ... anent-way/

Martin.

[Hardwicke]

Still no decent articles on Flat Bottomed or welded practices

Hi,

Lots of flat-bottom info in these articles:

https://www.mmrs.co.uk/technical-articl ... anent-way/

Martin.

Thanks Martin,
I'd forgotten those. I did read them a few years ago. I've some Colin Craig kits to build.
Michael