Flextrack: a flexible 3ft length of track that can be used on a layout either as a straight track or curved to whatever radius desired. Can be cut to various lengths using rail cutters.
Flextrack: Prefabricated flexible sections of track used on a layout. It usually comes in straight, 3-foot-long sections which can be bent as needed.
Flextrack Flexible, when you lay them, pieces of track. Rigid when nailed down.
Free-lance Make up your own design.
Frog The point where the track's rails cross the turnout's rails in a switch.
Whilst flextrack is available for both EM and P4 gauges, ready-to-run (RTR) point and crossing (P&C) work is not available, so P&C trackwork must be constructed by the modeller.
Do you glue down the cork, tack the flextrack in place, sprinkle on the ballast and think the right of way is complete? You airbrush some weathering on the rails. Good going! ...
(1) Pilz #5125 TT-gauge 664mm flextrack
(1) Pilz #83300 TT-gauge slip switch
(1) Pilz #83361 TT-gauge righthand #4 curved turnout ...
Track in long sections (usually 3 feet or 1 meter) that can be bent to any desired curve. Also called "flextrack".
Flextrack
See Flexible track.
About the only thing I use flextrack for now a days. I used simple white glue to tack it down.
 See also: Track, Curve, Operation, Frog, Benchwork
  
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