Does anyone make O Scale modern highway guardrails

What do you need them for?

Bachmann makes some guardrail for the E Z Streets track, I think it is for the 21 inch curves.

 

Lee Fritz

Custom install along highways on a layout

 

A styrene solution could be found or K&S kiosk shop for something or a combination.

I made these using bass wood -- not a guard rail I wanted early 40's- late 50's

Maybe you could try some carerra go slot car guard rails

For O scale you will need to make your own. You can cut the rail sections off of these and paint silver and add your own posts.

 

Link to Bay item

 

Search was for 1:43 guardrail sections.

I believe this subject was covered a couple years ago, maybe?  Didn't do a search....but it sounds familiar.

 

Anyhow, the solution one of our customers used on his HO layout...which will work for O, too....is to start with corrugated styrene.  JTT, Plastruct, et al, make the stuff.  Select a corrugation size that, when you cut two rows of corrugation, the strip height will approximate that of a highway safety rail.  Then, drill holes and spot round, square, H-column, ...whatever..., posts along your road.  Clamp the 2-corrugation strip to the posts and apply solvent adhesive...Testors, Plastic Weld, Tenax, etc...at the joints.

 

The same customer found that with a pair of smooth-jawed pliers (no grip serrations) he could flatten the end of a corrugation strip to simulate the end treatment of some styles of safety rail.  I know some highways have the rail ends simply twist down to the ground for the approach transition, so there's lots of ways to 'skin the cat' on this detail.

 

Anyhow, a sheet of the appropriate corrugated styrene cut into strips of 2 corrugations should make quite a bit of safety rail.

 

Painted silver-gray...aged with rust here and there, maybe...it should look pretty cool.

 

FWIW, always....

 

KD

try the guard rails that come with the slotcar race sets.

you may have to modify them to fit on your roadside.