Started elevated Trolley supports

Looks good
maybe you want to use Gargrave track instead of track with ballast.

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Originally posted by AlanRail:
Looks good
maybe you want to use Gargrave track instead of track with ballast.

Alan,

Since I am out of Fastrack and need to buy more it has crossed my mind. I have a pretty decent collection of Fastrack, but for an elevated trolley I think you may have helped me go that direction.

-Ted

My LHS which does not carry Atlas O for some reason had a few pieces just lying around on a shelf. I was getting some Fastrack for my layout and asked how much for the 40" Atlas O straight piece and he gave it to me for $10.00 so it looks like the elevated trolley is going to be Atlas O. I'll need a few more pieces.

The Atlas is very nice, but it does make me appreciate my Fastrack in the sense that Lionel did a pretty good job for what Fastrack is.

Atlas works too. Any un-ballasted track with lots of ties would give you a nice open look to the lower level.

You might also want to cap-off the tops of the bents with a small rectangular piece of Masonite. It will give the bents a nice finished look and you can mount stuff on the tops that way; like barrels or flags or signals or signage.

As to color well you need to decide if the bents are made of concrete or steel; It looks like steel to me so I'd consider a color like Claret Wine; a reddish color or an off-orange color like rusted or surface treated COR-TEN.

AlanRail - What paint do you recommend for concrete color? Thanks, Art

I am not Alan, but Desert Bisque from Rustoileum is really nice.

My design is very similar, but used clear plexiglass strips and rods, painted brown and grey.