Below is a photo of a length of Regner track placed on top of standard Peco SM32 flexitrack. A few obvious differences: the sleepers on the Regner track are smaller and much more closely spaced. The Regner track is actually of heavier weight than the Peco. The Regner is just slightly narrower than the Peco, though as you can see from the photo, its really hard to see that difference.
One big difference between the tracks is that the Regner sleepers are spaced much more closely together. Typical narrow gauge railways were built with the sleepers relatively far apart - because the loads on the line were light and to keep costs down. As part of the auction I won a large amount of Regner rails and sleepers which can be assembled into flexitrack. This gives me the opportunity to adjust the sleeper spacing to something more prototypical. Here's an overhead view of three track sections: from left-to-right you see: Peco SM32 flexitrack, Regner RSSB "flexitrack" with wide sleeper spacing and standard RSSB straights with the original sleeper spacing.
I brought one of the three lots from eBay. As a result I now had a narrow guage train that was almost, but not quite, the same scale and gauge as the main CR&DJR. Thus the Caecyno Tramway was born - a timber feeder line to the main railway. One end of the layout had been earmarked for just such a venture, although originally planned as a 32mm gauge line. Over the 4th. July long weekend I found time to start construction on the new Tramway.
The Tramway will be a high-level line running around the north loop of the main CR&DJR layout. There will be an interchange just outside Dolfor Junction station and this is where I have begun construction. Here you can see the new baseboard coming together with RSSB track laid temporarily to check fit. The Caecyno Tramway is positioned 8 inches higher than the main line, which you can see in the foreground. This area will look a lot better once I've got the scenery built around it.
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