... will also be 12" wide. By doing this you help restrain the curve of the rail, as well as making your layout more prototypical. But generally it is better to plan your section breaks to avoid gaps on curves where possible. Regards Brian Lewis Carrs -- C+ L Finescale. http://www.finescale.org.uk Hi Brian, thanks for the reply. I like the idea of the Loctite and, I presume, using the "dummy" fish plates. I always found the insulating plastic joiners were less than statisfactory over time on previous layouts, leading to derailments. My plan was to cut the rail with my "indusrtrial strength" Dremmel type tool with a very thin blade then fit false fishplates to "hide" the gap (both rails, obvioulsy, for realism). I think I might have to resort to my old tactic using a pair of long thin screws in the baseboard with the rail soldered to them with the cut in between- ballast can be good camoflage! Avoiding section breaks on curves on Soddingham is going ...