QUOTE (ben100 @ 10 Mar 2008, 15:37)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Hi Tony
I have a tri-ang princess elizabeth and various coaches and rolling stock, and was wondering wether they would work on code 100 track.
So do you think they would work?
Thanks
Ben
Hello Ben.
As I said above I'm just building my layout at present. What I did was to try some old Triang coaches on Peco code 75 & code 100 track. What I did was to push a coach by hand along a length of rail. On the code 75 rail no way,it hopped & bumped all over the place. On the code 100 they seemed to be all right.
I have now layed a good length of code 100 track,about 10 to 12 feet with points down an incline & I have tried the experiment again with the following coaches all with origional plastic wheels.
R226 Sr utility van. Result No good. Wheels catch on sleepers.
R332 GWR Composite. Result as above. No good.
R427 Caledonian 1st/3rd Comp. Result Ran ok even through points. Even if they all ran perfectly I would not use plastic wheels on my layout so in my case the experiment doesn't matter.
In summary the very old Triang won't run on anything but old Triang track.The newer Triang stuff will run ok on code 100.
My advice to you or anyone else who wants to run this old stock is to either reprofile the wheels or re wheel the items with modern steel wheels. Wheel sets are quite cheap to buy so it may give some Triang stock a new lease of life. On the very old Triang stock the axles are not pinpoint but round. This presents a new problem to which the only solution might be to use new bogies on them. If your Triang stock is of the round axle variety you will have to decide whether to re bogie them or sell them off on e bay. Maybe someone has a way around the problem with the round axles on the very old Triang stock. I don't know as I haven't tried.
Regards.
Tony.