Does anyone know if this roadbed is still being made? Does anyone have an address or phone number if it is still being made?
By the way, Studebaker is no longer being manufactured either!!!
Long out of production, I’m afraid. It shows up occasionally on e-bay. Is there some reason other than nostalgia you want this stuff? We had it on the first large club layout I ever worked on and it was a huge pain. Didn’t take track nails without beating them in, warped if you used the wet water method of ballasting, and the grade profile just didn’t look right, with the shoulders being to wide on top but too steep on the sides.
Maybe snotty sarcasm should be one of the no-no’s for the forum! The man had a question - perhaps he does not know everything as you think you do![^]
Everybody seems to assume it’s no longer being made. But a search of Trout Creek Engineering shows they still carry the line. See bottom of page of their BK products at http://www.troutcreekeng.com/bkho.html.
Fred Wright
Never mind Mr.Poteet, Thats just his sense of humor. He’s just bitter that he can’t get Studebaker parts anymore.
It can be used in display showcase.
Jack W.
Jack,I know several modelers with older layouts that used it and won’t replace it…
I like it myself years ago…
If there is one thing I have learn in the 55 years I been in the hobby a lot of older modelers still believes in the old ways of doing things simply because the old ways still work…
Fred Wright came up with the answer. I am using many salvaged pieces [sections] that are over 30 years old. No problems.
Flip
Sometimes those questions require a certain amount of sauce from the Elders who recall them. I too remember this item.
I think the ones that were actually used on a railroad are still being used with great resistance to any consideration of replacement. One has to scan Estate sales and hover as a Vulture does waiting for the last gasp from such a stubborn user of this product before being able to buy it.
I did a layout with it years agouin. It worked fine. Since then I have used flex track. It is faster than Truscale and close to looking as good. The turnouts are much easier. Truscale was easier for me than hand laid, though the handlay people may dispute that. Seeing I never got good at handlaying I can’t compair. I too have operated on layout with truescale and it worked fineeven with the brass track.
I would not discourage you from using it if you like it and can find it. I have seen a little at the local flea markets.
I would have used it on my first HO layout but price kept me away…I remeber seeing some great RailRoads that did use it…With folks looking for ready to run today the Truscale with rail might make a comeback?..Cox 47
brownsvillekid wanted to know if anyone knew if Tru-Scale roadbed was still being made?
I thought my response was very specific there, Ivanhen. I said
What kind of an answer do you think I should have made to browsvillekid’s question??? I haven’t seen a Tru-Scale roadbed advertisement in twenty plus years and I would presume that their product is, in reality,
I suppose I could have said
I hope you will excuse me for thinking that I was saying the same thing!
Accept my humblest apology; I certainly did not mean to confuse you with long words; where possible I promise to restrict myself to two and three syllable words in the future. NOTE; everyone who believes that please stand on their head!!! I get all the change that falls out of your pockets!!!
The appropriate - sorry for that long word! - action for you to take at this time would be to return to one of those government schools you attended and punch one of your English teachers smack in the nose!!! I do expect that what you will most likely do is hit the ‘REPORT ABUSE’ button!!! Have at it!!!
I don’t know, you might still confuse the guy. Maybe saying “there aint none” might be a little more appropriate to the level you need to shoot at.
What? Aint got it.
Youse cant buy dat stuff heah.
LOL.
Or to be blunt:
That product was sold before you were born.
Never owned one but I sure wish I had bought my father-in-laws pickup as an investment. I understand that Barrett-Jackson marketed a '64 Gran Turismo Hawk awhile back for over fifty grand - the vehicle had some kind of documented historical significance and that is what drove the price up. Not bad for a vehicle that originally sold for less than three thousand smackers!!!
A guy I worked with at Norton Air Force Patch claimed that his '66 Lark was the last one sold off the lot in San Berdoo, Calif.
To drive an older vehicle of the 50’s, 60’s and early 70’s requires a simple toolbox, spare parts (Points usually) and some acceptance and understanding of how things work with the air breathing non-fuel injected engines.
It is a joy.
Today’s cars… well… a dummy helps to design them and require a computer to adjust or diagnose something. In fact, I occasionally “Play” with some of the hotter ones and find there is a electronic “Nanny” taking away the hammer in certain parts of the Operating Envelope. KILLJOY I SAY!!!
I discovered one was equippted with a radar in the front preventing you from revving or speeding up when another vehicle is within 2 car lengths to the front.
Im glad Ive lived and loved those old cars in my time. I would not want to go back now but the wee ones growing up today dont know what they are missing!
I just regret selling my vehicle for 600 dollars when a totally rusted out one sold for 5000 dollars around the same time. But I take solace in the fact that mine would still exceed the factory max design speed of 132 and only needed a few hundred dollars work to bring back to spec.
A CAT 340i can run all day at that level. Something that weights as much as one of the older cars. hehehe.
However, it was older than some of my classmates and gas prices are too expensive, especially today at 3.00 gallon and Leaded gas is not availible easily in my area; so it’s time for it to go.
Brownsvillekid,if you are still watching this thread ,I hope you are not totally put off by the way this thread has broken down. Generaly the truscale stuff is hard to come by these days since better and cheaper stuff can be found. If you have access to tools it would probably be best to cut your own road bed from pine. If you are concerned about warping from the ballasting process ,you shouild probably seal the wood with a sealer before laying track on it. A good sanding sealer would work. You can get it in spray cans and sray it out side before installing it on the layout.
It will all come back if its any good, they just started remanufacturing railway engineiring stuff and they had been gone for a long time, silver streak, still out there and taked to a person that knows about alexanders stuff and it is awaiting resurection, guy just dosn’t have the time and original owner didn’t want it sold to someone outside the family.
Your post might have been specific, but if you