Added guardrails to my layout

[AMH1955]

My track looked bare without guardrails to me so I added 70 of them.
Now it looks more like a real highway. Tested with several different type US-1 vehicles and trailers and they all clear okay. They're genuine Tyco guardrails, some of the knock-offs are too close to the track and the vehicles and trailers hit them.

 

[biddle]

I remember having these on my TYCO slot car sets as a teenager.

 

[suprb6970]

I like the gray colored ones. Those are in the ones I'm going with.

 

[AMH1955]

I like the gray colored ones. Those are in the ones I'm going with.

I like the yeller ones, to each their own. Does Tyco make gray ones? I have some generic gray ones and they don't clip onto the track well and interfere with the trailers when they swing out around the corners and deslot them. I had a littler trouble with the wrecker rear tires on the ends of the rails on the approach to corners but bent the ends in a little to clear. The replacement rear tires stick out too far and hit them, they look weird too. I have to figure out how to cut or grind them down to make them thinner or get some that are the correct width. Good project for today.

 

[suprb6970]

You know what? You're right! The gray rails are aurora. They probably won't work. I do have some brown ones I've been saving. Tyco made green nite glow, white nite glow, orange, yellow, and brown. To the best of my knowledge.