Lego train track round the walls of a room

[willhappy]

hi all

Been thinking of getting some lego train track to go around the walls of my lad bedroom. Its going to be running about 1 foot from the ceiling and looking to make it a bit quieter because the wood that the track rests on make it very loud,

Can anyone suggest anything????

will

[engineer003]

I have used Armstrong drop ceilings and cut to fit as a ballast, and angle the edges. It is a sound absorbing material and the white side down will look nice too. I repaint the white side after I am done cutting and fitting.

[xboxtravis7992]

Many model railroaders use cork roadbed to dampen the sound of their trains. Check any model train shop, they don't make cork exactly for Lego track, so bring some track samples and ask them to help you find the correct cork size.

[Whofan88]

There may be O-Gauge track padding, O gauge is one of the closest standard modelling gauges to L-Gauge, OO and HO are both much smaller.

[willhappy]

well thanks guys, one more thing would you glue the track or would you nail it down?

will

[THERIZE]

well thanks guys, one more thing would you glue the track or would you nail it down?

will

the tracks do already have small holes in The middle so I would nail them down. It is also better for the tracks if you'd want to remove them from the wood.

[willhappy]

cool thanks. Just need to get instructions to make a mallard now

will

[dr_spock]

Screwing down the tracks would be easier for removal. Prying out nails could damage the plastic if you are not careful and the plastic has aged and become brittle..

[willhappy]

another good point

will

[pirzyk]

There is also a product called homasote that some model train folks use. It is compressed newspaper and comes in 4' x 8' sheets at some of the local home improvement stores. It would be cheaper than the cork but also is very messy (dusty) when cutting it. It has very good sound deading properties.

[Railfan9]

There is also a product called homasote that some model train folks use. It is compressed newspaper and comes in 4' x 8' sheets at some of the local home improvement stores. It would be cheaper than the cork but also is very messy (dusty) when cutting it. It has very good sound deading properties.

It is a great sounding deafing material. I worked at a placed called Entertrainment Junction and they used that on the layout they had there.

[willhappy]

hi pirzyk

very interesting, will look into that

will

[lostdriveway]

You can also buy the cork in sheets of like 1m x 1m and cut it down to size. My Dad owns a Model Railway shop so i've been selling it like that for years!

[xboxtravis7992]

Then there is the method of using Homasote and Cork! That would really dampen the sound, it would almost be over kill! Yet a lot of "scale" modelers chose to do that. David Popp's N-Scale Railroad in his book about how to build a Model Railroad uses both Homasote and Cork (

). If it works well for the model guys, it should work well in Lego.

It is funny, I keep reading books on how to build scale railroads so I can someday do an HO layout, yet half the ideas in those books give me more ideas for a Lego layout. I might need to build both then to be satisfied :P