[Doug]

When I wanted to start a fixed layout a few years ago, I phoned up a model shop in Blackpool, Lancs... who I had bought some items from in the past.

To play safe, they advised me to get insulfrog points and Code 100 Peco track.

I say to you, don't play safe, get something that you will really appreciate.

Go to a model shop, ask the owner to open some packets and look at insulfrog points and Code 100 Peco track. Compare it to electrofrog points and Code 75 track and make up your own mind.

I have gone one step further and got something even better. Tillig Elite points (electrofrog) and Tillig Elite Code 83 track. Compared to Peco, it is fantastic. Locos and rolling stock just glide over all the pointwork as though its not there.

 

[Doug]

QUOTE (Graham Plowman @ 9 Mar 2007, 07:16) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>...
Serious modellers will not go for Tillig. They will go for SMP/C&L.
...

What is a serious modeller?

Someone that is happy to put up with an out of scale OO loco with boilers designed to house 1940's chunky electric motors or chassis made of solid metal with suspension detail moulded onto the sides. Fixed ponies and flangeless wheels...

I think that modelling is all about compromise. Compressing reality into the limited space we have involves quite a bit of compromise. We can't get too obsessed with one aspect of the hobby, when we have glaring inaccuracies in other areas.

 

[Doug]

Thanks for correcting my English Graham...

You say, Tillig doesn't look anything like British track. What does British track look like?

I never said Tillig looked British. I and others model with it because of it's superior running qualities that the pesky little electric locos appreciate over the likes of Peco.