Sleepers!

[HawkeyeTheNoo]

Why do the model Rail manufacturers in the main produce track with black sleepers? Why not brown or grey? It would certainly be more helpful! Paint sales would go down though!

 

[EM2]

Peco track is available with wooden (brown) or concrete (grey) sleepers

 

[GNER 373]

I've got some Peco Grey Concrete Sleepers, a couple of flexi track one's each measuring a metre in length, bought them in about 1995 for a quarry layout I had planned!

 

[HawkeyeTheNoo]

Thanks guys, I realised that there was a little brown and grey out there which is why I wrote "in the main". I was just wondering why the majority was made black when sleepers in the real world aren't black. Is black plastic cheaper to produce than brown or grey?

 

[142094]

Probably yes, plus Hornby have been making the same type of track for years so no point changing it now. Have a look at people who make their own track in EM and P4 gauge I think it is called, which is much more realistic.
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Have a look at the track on this guy's website:

http://www.p4newstreet.com/

Very realistic.

 

[Trog]

New softwood sleepers treated with proper creosote were often black.
Fading to greys and browns as they aged.

 

[EM2]

I would have said that *only* Hornby and Bachmann (and maybe Atlas?) produce black sleepers. As far as I know, Peco, Kato, Tillig, Fleischmann, Roco etc., etc., all produce them in either brown or grey or both.

 

[fgwrich]

Well, Peco have now introduced Steel Sleeperd Flexi Track into their range - Can't find too many details about it as of yet, but theres a picture of it on Rail Exclusive's website report from the Hobby & Model trade event at Coventry.

Pic's at the bottom of the page, after the Bachmann 2011/2012 Range previews & pics.

http://www.modelrailexclusive.co.uk/index.php?category=80