HO Scale Cork Track Bed On A Budget - Where To Buy & Cost 

You could split your road bed down the middle and make flexible curves without wasting your cork cutting curves. Just a thought from north Idaho. 😋

Cork is an awesome solution.

A tip you might want to consider Dave. Once your cork is down paint it ballast colour. I did it on some recent new track and liked the result.

Midwest cork $52 per box , 75 ft per box, lots of extra work, the club build a jig and used a table saw to cut your 2x3 sheets, you are making progress

solid work Scott! looking forward to your progress :)

Cheaper but it looks like more work. That’s a lot of sanding. And dust. But hey, it looks really good and like you said, you can choose the angle. Can’t wait to see track laid down on it.

Liking what ur doing. Nice job Dave.

Thank you for the tip!! Saved a bunch of money on doing this! Thank you a million!!!

Just a thought, you could make your cuts on a 30 degree angle, or there abouts, so you alread have an angle on one side without sanding. When you go to cut the next run of track bed flip the sheet over, and cut the next at the same angle. Bothe sides would be angled.

New to the channel so catching up on the videos ...love this layout design got my brain ticking now

You could use some of that cork to fix the rattles in Bugsy.

How about a wood jig to angle knife at 45 degrees,mirror each cut(flip cork),be aware width sizing, less waste and sanding .

I don't like cork roadbed for where I live here in the southwestern part of New Mexico where it is usually pretty dry environment most of the year because in this environment cork tends to crumble over time, and those crumbled bits will find there way into a locomotive motor where they will gum up the works.

Not sure if it matters to you or not, but that locomotive you show at the end, the NS 5246 has the dynamic brake hatch (the fan in the center) on backwards. The boxy section should be at the front. I do like your roadbed results.

thanks for sharing

Sorry, I just heard your name, I took the name of your channel as your name, Hi Dave. Enjoy your channel and can't wait until you have someone yell out, "Beam up, Scotty!" LOL