O gauge model railroad track survey - Atlas, MTH, Lionel, Ross, Gargraves

This video shows each brand of O gauge track.
Note: The center rail has been removed; Ties and rails have been painted.
See my other video to see how 2-rail Hi-rail track like this can be used on a layout.

If you want to paint the rails brown, I recommend ACE Hardware paint, color "Chesterfield F58", interior/latex/flat. Use 2 coats.

Enjoy and thanks for watching.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Lionel
• MTH
• Gargraves
• Ross
• Atlas
• railroad
• model
• trains
• track
• rail
• gauge
• ties
• 2-rail
• hi-rail

[markd514]

I cannot understand why companies like mth would make a lame looking track. I can walk to any train track and get measurements needed to make a correct scale track. Atlas is simply the best-it is a no brainer-looks perfect, except of course for the lame 3rd rail, which they should phase out anyway.

[Niner6]

I agree. There is no excuse for MTH not being able to get the tie spacings correct.

And yes, I have written to all companies about offering 2 rail hi-rail track, but no response so far. Doesn't make sense, since it looks great, and you can still run MTH Premier engines on it. Conversion kits could be developed.  Why does every other scale have 2 rails (in a reasonable radius) except this one? See my other video showing an MTH running on 2 rails.

[Southerntreatment]

awesome dude!! love it!! i use Atlas O and it is very realistic as you can see with my layout!

[Niner6]

Thanks. Atlas O did a nice job with their product. It gets a slight edge over ScaleTrax because of the selection of curves and switches available.

[nitromarc96]

Nice job thanks for sharing.

[markd514]

@AndreyCracker

That was not nice. So, amuse me Andrey......why am I an "asshole"? Or maybe it is you that is this asshole you refer to?

Rude people like you should not be in this nice train hobby post.

[AndreyCracker]

@markd514 your an asshole

[aocruiser]

Thanks for the great information!!!!!!