HO Code 100 concrete ties

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I’ve been looking for concrete tie track with code 100 rail. This is just planning for a potential future module. The club modules use code 100 rail.

Looks like Peco might be the only one manufacturing this type at the moment. It looks to me that Peco just painted their wood ties a concrete color, but it is hard to tell from this photo. It most likely follows UK track and rail specifications though.

Atlas makes code 83 concrete ties. Would it be possible to fit their code 100 rail into their code 83 concrete ties?

Micro engineering supposedly has the best looking concrete ties, although I have yet to find a clear photo of their concrete tie track. Would their code 100 rail fit into these code 83 concrete ties?

Finding any information on Micro Engineering is very tough to do. They don’t appear to have a website, and the best info I could find either here in the archives or online deals with their N scale concrete tie track.

Any turnouts I plan to install would use wooden ties, and finding these in code 100 is pretty easy to do.

Another look that might work is to have piles of concrete ties near the right of way hinting at a future tie replacement program. Does any manufacturer make stacks of concrete ties?

I also think it might be time to get a new Walthers catalog. My old 2000 book is quickly getting out of date.

Any help is appreciated.

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The concrete ties on PECO track is very much US prototype right down to the tie contours and the Pandrol tie clips.

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Thanks for the info Jonathan.

Then Peco is for sure the way to go. I’m a big fan of their turnouts, and overall quality of their wooden tie track. So I should have expected as much from their concrete ties.

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I have a few meters of Shinohara concrete tie Code 100 flex, acquired years ago. When I tried to find more I was quoted a price more than twice the full MSRP for Atlas Code 83.

For my simple purposes, the Atlas will be my choice for most use. The Shinohara will contribute ties to some Code 100 specialwork I have to build. (the non-standard length ties, like those on my prototype, will be wooden.)

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)