Bachmann Trains - Snap-Fit E-Z TRACK 11.25” RADIUS CURVED TRACK (6/card) - NICKEL SILVER Rail With Grey Roadbed - N Scale, 8

works good

As described

Fast delivery, fair price. Thanks.

It's a curved section of track. It does it's job; it...creates curves in a track. You need two packs of these to make a full circle. Also, you'll want to wait to assemble it until you know for sure what your track layout is going to look like overall. I assembled it twice and it caused two dead links to form in the track. I used pliers and as easy tension as I could manage to squeeze the tabs. This solved the issue.As for value, paying $12-$15 per pack doesn't seem too bad until you realize that's roughly $2 for a piece of plastic with two strips of metal going through it. Before you say anything about the level of detail going into these, keep in mind that about 80% of the manufacturing process is done with injection molding (which is where the details would be put in because it's a lot less work during assembly). If I had to guess, the rail arrives at the factory (already shaped) in a single roll that gets cut and formed according to needsAlso, one section of track had a strip of plastic that didn't get cut quite right. It looked like a hair resting on the track, but it was, indeed, plastic. I removed it with a pair of tweezers.

I tried a layout by making my own road bed and assembling bare track, but n-scale track is hard to work with and I wound up redoing the layout with this. Much easier & better. The train runs much smoother now.

Works great

Yes, I'm a senior retired woman and just bought my first train set before Christmas. I set it up on my extended dining table, added some "trees" and other village'y items, and ran it a lot. I have a CD called "Sleeping on a Train" and played it when the model train was going -- really created atmosphere. I was fine with the N-scale cars after I figured out the technique for setting them on the track -- frustrating at first -- I almost gave up. I ordered more extra track than I needed to make a large oval. The set came with a small circular track set-up which I found too small and boring. I got help from a friend in Florida to configure the oval, although I would have gotten it eventually, as I do with everything else. All in all, I love my train and extra track and will probably go further with this interest next year. Right now, though, it's all packed away with the holidays being over, but I will get the mood again probably in the fall. I may even get into a year-round village without the "holiday" feel. I am thinking about a bigger layout, but need to buy some plywood to make a platform over the existing dining table, then shove the whole thing closer to my huge picture windows which overlook the San Juan mountains to the south -- makes for a gorgeous background for a train village.

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