HO Scale Mainline Tie Plate Strips

Description

Finally there is an affordable and efficient way to add tie plate detail to your real wooden tie hand laid HO scale track!

One package of tie plates is enough for 18 feet and 1 1/2 inches of track.

The tie plates are designed to work with any NMRA standard code 70 rail.  They will also work with Micro Engineering code 83 rail because the base of their code 83 rail is very close to the width of NMRA code 70 rail.  NMRA standard code 55 rail will fit, but extra care will need to be taken to keep the rail in gage.

The sprue is designed to act as a jig for building tie strips.  The sprue is designed to work with 8 foot, 6 inch HO scale ties and properly center those ties like the Kappler brand ties sold here.  To use 8 foot ties, either visually center the ties or use a 0.030 inch thick shim on each side.  To use 9 foot ties, the sprues that guide the ends of the ties will need to be removed and the ties visually centered.  Note some HO scale tie manufacturers do not list the scale length.  For example, Northeastern Scale Lumber’s HO scale ties to not state the scale length.  Measurement of their ties shows they are a scale 9 foot tie.

For details on how to use the product, please see the tutorial.