Joe,

Thanks for your quick and considerate response.  This is helpful.  It also confirms that what I'm trying to do is in fact not straight forward and will take a bit of finessing.  With your insight as a place to start - I think I can make it work.  If needed, I can easily enough make a 2" segment by cutting and splicing a longer segment.

For a number of years I've been annually setting up atlas HO using flex track hot glued onto foamcore base to run around the christmas tree (the 26" R loop) with extensions then going around the living room, under furniture, and for a few years also splitting off to run through/around my son's room.  After a number of years of dismantling, reassembling, stepping/tripping on the track and annually modifying the layout - I'm looking this year to start from scratch.  The snap together ez-track appears to be a simpler more robust alternative.   

Thank you
 

Working with Bachmann gray EZ-Track, I'm looking to create a 360 degree 26" radius circlular section of track tangent to a straight section.  The turnouts off the straight section will be made by connecting the singe end of a #5 L turnout to the single end of a #5 R turnout.     

1. Since the turnouts include a short straight eazement section - I expect that the loop will require some other segments in combination with standard 26" radius sections.  What combination & quantity of gray EZ-Track segments are needed to create a 26" R circle connecting to the turnout eazements?

2. Is a dimensioned layout drawing available for the EZ-Track #5 turnout?

3. I understand tha the straight side of the #5 turnout is 11 1/2 " length?

4. Is the curved portion of the #5 turnout equal to (replaceable) by any particular standard curved segment of track?  (30 degree 18"R ?)

thank you
   


onof tracks are needed to