Great Job Rod! This will help out a lot of us who haven't figured out a good way to cut Fastrack and have it look good! Thanks! To All: As for Noise Reduction, with Fastrack or other molded plastic trackbed brands, I use the soft charcoal black foam insulation like what you use to seal around air conditioners in a window. Mine is 1/2 inch thick and I overlap it 1/2 inch out both sides of the Fastrack. I glue the bottom outside edges of the Fastrack to the top of the foam with Foam Glue and the bottom of the foam to plywood with Foam Glue. I Only use screws at the End-of-track bumpers to anchor them, no other screws hold the track at all and I use all O-36 switches and curves Fastrack, no problems with track coming apart and I would say at least a third reduction in track noise! I have been very happy with the noise reduction but my wife is even happier, my layout is in the living room and she can now watch TV with trains running 6-10 ft away without turning up the TV, I used to chase her right out of the room before!
Sincerely, Gary P
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