guard rails on peco turnouts

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Has anyone tried/accomplished replacing the ugly plastic guardrails on Peco C100 insulfrog turnouts with NS rail ones & if you have what method did you use?

Thanks

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I suggest to just paint them. Rusty rail on them should do.

Johnboy out…

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Make you own. When I hand laid turnouts I made my own guard rails. quite easy.

Rich

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What’s so ugly about the plastic guardrails? The railhead on a prototype guardrail isn’t a wear surface and isn’t shiny.

Image from http://palter.org/~brotzman/11-05-22_GEORGIA_SIDINGS/CSX_Abville-Sub-NE-HARPER-turnout-frog-sb.jpg .

I wish more manufacturers would use rust-colored plastic for guardrails and frog wing rails. Otherwise, when you clean the track, it’s too easy for weathering to be removed leaving a shine.