N scale roadbed for HO scale track?

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Hi, all…

Remember the Turtle Creek construction series in MR a while back? The author used N scale cork roadbed for HO track. He split the two halves of the roadbed and inserted a strip of cork sheet as a filler. What are the dimensions of that filler piece to get the proper roadbed width?

Thanks in advance for any and all responses.

Bruce J.

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Don’t bother with the filler. Just lay it ‘as is’ without splitting it (IIRC, it happens to be exactly the same width as HO scale ties); then just form the shoulder ballast slope…with ballast. Looks better than the split-cork shoulders.