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Can you make Assembly Fixtures for rail other than Micro Engineering?
While we encourage our customers to use Micro Engineering rail to build switches in our assembly fixtures, we can cut any fixture to fit rail produced by other manufacturers. Please contact us for more information. Below is a table of rail we have cut fixtures for and the dimensions of this rail.

Rail produced by many manufacturers is actually 100% compatible with Micro Engineering rail and can be used in a a fixture cut for Micro Engineering. Here is a complete cross reference.

Popular Rail Dimensions

All rail samples were measured using calipers and are accurate to within +/-.001".

Measurements were taking from sample rail pieces that we have on hand. We can produce fixtures to match most of these sizes. Please contact us for more details. All Micro Engineering samples, as well as S Helper Service rail are available as individual rail strips. All other sizes were removed from flextrack.
Manufacturer
Rail Code
Height
Head Width
Base Width
Micro Engineering Code 40
0.043
0.021
0.039
Micro Engineering Code 55
0.056
0.027
0.055
Micro Engineering Code 70
0.070
0.031
0.069
Micro Engineering Code 83
0.082
0.032
0.067
Micro Engineering Code 100
0.100
0.040
0.080
Micro Engineering Code 125
0.123
0.056
0.111
Micro Engineering Code 148
0.148
0.061
0.123
Atlas Code 55 "Super-Flex" N Scale
0.055
0.027
0.054
Atlas Code 80 "Super-Flex" N Scale
0.078
0.025
0.053
Atlas Code 83 "Super-Flex"
0.082
0.039
0.078
Atlas Code 100 "Super-Flex"
0.100
0.038
0.078
Atlas Code 148 "Custom-Flex"
0.146
0.067
0.132
Peco Code 60
0.064
0.030
0.049
Peco Code 75
0.074
0.032
0.067
Peco Code 80
0.079
0.025
0.053
Peco Code 82
0.082
0.035
0.067
Peco Code 83 "IL-115"
0.082
0.032
0.067
Peco Code 100
0.100
0.041
0.086
Shinohara Code 60
0.060
0.025
0.051
Shinohara Code 70
0.070
0.031
0.070
Shinohara Walthers Code 83
0.082
0.040
0.080
Central Valley Code 81
0.081
0.034
0.068
Right-O-Way Code 148
0.148
0.062
0.125
Old Pullman Code 125
0.126
0.065
0.126
S Helper Service S Scale Rail
0.136
0.047
0.106
MTH Mikes Train House O Scale
0.190
0.090
0.192
Roco Roco "Line" Code 83
0.082
0.038
0.076
Pilz Code 83
0.080
0.032
0.067
Tilig Code 83
0.008
0.032
0.067
C & L Code 125
0.125
0.055
0.110




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