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On my last traditional Lionel layout, I used good old fashioned tubular track from Lionel and a green carpet underlayment.  That kept sound at a level that I could just tollerate without my ear muff hearing protection on.  The loud track noise is one reason I moved away from running my Lionel's outside of our layout under the tree each holiday season.  It never bothered me as a child, I was autistic then, but then my layouts were on the floor in my bedroom, which was carpet.  With the track on my carpet table, I used the locking tabs you used to be able to get to keep the track sections from seperating and didn't fasten it down at all.  With only running smaller traditional engines up to a Berkshire and F3's, the track stayed put and didn't creep around the table.  Noise abatement, in any scale(I have HO and G) is very importment for me.   When I run my G on my overhead loop, I put the plastic LGB wheels back in.  But for open houses behind my live steam locomotive, I put the metal ones back in.  That is how sensitive I am to sounds.           Mike the Aspie

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